Tag: suffering (12)
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David Livingstone – 200 years
200 years ago, one of my greatest heroes was born. David Livingstone, born 19th March 1813 in Blantyre, Lanarkshire became the greatest of African missionaries, determined to open up the Dark Continent “for Commerce and Christianity”.
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The house of mourning
One verse has been often in my mind over the past weeks. “It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart” (Ecclesiastes 7:4)
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Illness
I’m sitting in bed, off sick from work with a cough and cold on my chest (no need for sympathy – I wrote this a couple of months back now). And it’s making me think about illness. Some of us have a continuous struggle with illness every day of our…
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Obadiah Holmes’s Will
These are to signify that I Obadiah Holmes of Newport, Rhode Island being at present through the goodness and mercy of my God of sound memory and being by daily intimation put in mind of the frailty and uncertainty of this present life, do therefore for settling my estate in…
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Do you expect to be sent to prison?
Do you expect to be sent to prison? For a long time, I’ve accepted the fact that I’m likely to serve a jail sentence at some point. What for? For preaching the Bible. And for trying to follow what it says. How close are we to the situation where Christians…
