The Nitty Gritty
What are prison inmates generally like? The average inmate is under 25 years of age. About 96% are men, and 3 or 4% are women. Many come from broken homes, or a home that had little love or discipline. However,...
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Making Your Visitor Welcome
The singing has already started. The Christians sit comfortably in their usual spots. As they sing, they glance down at the hymnbook every few lines. Before they get to the last line, they close the book and then bow their...
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Prison Follow-up
While he was in prison, John the Baptist was depressed by doubts concerning Jesus being the Messiah. Jesus told His disciples that they should tell Him of the miracles they had seen and that, "the poor have the gospel preached...
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On Weeds and Weeding
Don't confuse me with a gardener. I plant flowers each year but I don't read garden catalogs in February, longing for the moment when the snow melts enough to see the soil. I like flowers as art, the bold interplay...
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The Big Scare
For ten anxious days they had waited in Jerusalem for the promised "Comforter." How often their minds must have revisited that evening seven weeks earlier when the Lord pledged to send another Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, who would abide...
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Two Men: One Mission
Never in the course of Israel's history had the moral condition of the nation been so low as in the reign of Ahab. Of this weak and wicked man we read, he "did evil in the sight of the Lord...
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Naaman the Syrian
In Naaman we get man at his best without God. He must have been the world's envy, the great favorite of the day. He was made much of by everyone, by the king himself, and all the nation. The Lord,...
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Death in the Pot
Who never saw death, and yet died? To be dead without having seen death seems absurd. Yet the question is not as foolish as it seems. Are there really persons who have died, although their dying hour has not arrived? You...
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Elisha’s Mentor
A better script could not have been written by the best of dramatists. A solitary prophet of the Lord, roughly-clad and seemingly unknown, explodes on the stage of history and fearlessly declares before wicked King Ahab and his courtiers: "No...
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