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March 22
CHRIST the SUSTAINER: “And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist (hold together) (Col 1:17). By appointment of President Woodrow Wilson, Henry van Dyke became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg in 1913. The following year, World War I threw Europe into disarray. In the thick of it, van Dyke, though…
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March 22 Petition Mission
“…do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises” (Heb 6:12). Graham Scroggie points out, using Mark 5 as illustrative, that sometimes our petition is answered but the desire denied; sometimes the desire is answered but the petition denied; and sometimes both petition and desire are answered, or denied.…
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March 22
Mrs. Nisbet, an upright woman living in Dumfernline, Scotland, met an evangelist who asked her if she had experienced the great change without which, the Lord declared, no one can see the kingdom of God (Jn 3:3). In the course of the conversation, Mrs. Nisbet exclaimed, “With all my religion, I have never been born…
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March 21
“OUR SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel” (2 Tim 1:10). Dr. Howard A. Kelly, one of four founders of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the father of modern gynecology, was a serious believer. He prayed before every operation. He read the Bible…
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March 21 Petition Mission
“Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word” (Acts 4:29). Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) was a controversial Congregationalist preacher who, from his pulpit, thundered against the liquor and gambling interests in his city, naming names. One evening, as he walked in the city…
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March 21
Evolutionary paleontologist Niles Eldredge confesses: “That individual kinds of fossils remain recognizably the same throughout the length of their occurrence in the fossil record had been known to paleontologists long before Darwin published his Origin. Darwin himself…prophesied that future generations of paleontologists would fill in these gaps by diligent search…120 years of paleontological research later,…