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June 28
CHRIST the SOUL-WINNER (Prov 11:30):John Pitezel and his wife served the Lord in n. Michigan from 1844 to 1846 on the edge of Keweenaw Bay. They longed for a breakthrough with the Indians but saw only opposition. Once, while evangelizing a mining crew many miles distant, he knelt praying. He was interrupted by Black Swallow,…
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June 28 Petition Mission
“I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus, that you were enriched in everything by Him…” (1 Cor 1:4-5). N.D. Hillis writes: “One of the great pictures in the French Academy of Design assembles the immortals of all ages.… Delaroche places Intellect on…
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June 28
“Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation” (2 Cor 6:2). Dawson Trotman writes: The very first trip that I ever took on United Airlines was on a twelve-passenger Boeing plane. It was about a three-hour trip and I wanted to share Christ with someone, but it wasn’t until the…
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June 27
CHRIST OUR INSPIRATION to WORK HARD: “He who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father” (Jn 14:12). Titus 2:14 declares that Christ “gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and…
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June 27 Petition Mission
“But Daniel purposed in his heart…” (Dan 1:8). The door of history pivots on a relative handful of decisions. Here we read about young Daniel’s choice to guard himself from defilement. His resolve set him apart from the crowd, equipped him for God’s use, and changed the direction of world empires. When Don Calhoun made…
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June 27
To the writers of [the New Testament Epistles] this present life was only an incident. It was lived, with a due sense of responsibility, as a preface to sharing the timeless life of God Himself. To these men this world was only a part, and because of the cumulative result of human sin a highly…