... that happens, we can have a worship service any time we share our faith with someone else. All we need is one other person to have the prescribed number. The Washington Times carried a story a while back about former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. According to this newspaper article, Dr. Rice once described to a Sunday school class at National Presbyterian Church in Washington, how she had drifted from her Christian faith and how God reached out and brought her back: "I was a preacher's kid," says Dr ...
2. Even in the Grocery Store
Matthew 18:15-20
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The Washington Times carried a story many years ago about Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. According to this newspaper article, Dr. Rice once described to a Sunday school class at National Presbyterian Church in Washington, how she had drifted from her Christian faith and how God reached out and brought her back: "I was a preacher's kid," says Dr. Rice, "so Sundays were church, no doubt about that. The church was the center of our lives. In segregated black Birmingham of the late 1950s and early 1960s ...
... to accept some tangible help from others who have been the beneficiaries of their generosity in the past" (As quoted in Hector Tobar, "U.S. Response to Disaster Amazes, Disgusts World," The Seattle Times, 03 September 2005, A12). Thankfully, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stepped in and expressed the heartfelt thanks of the president, the United States government and all Americans for the aid that was coming our way. She said she was deeply touched by gifts like those of Sri Lanka, and announced that ...
... his staff. She also assured the leaders of the world that the United States government was still up and running. It was the voice of the young lady from Alabama whose name in Italian means to play “with sweetness.” You and I know her as Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State of the United States, still one of the most respected women in our nation. (4) She credits her parents, of course. But more than anything else she credits her faith in God. Truly that faith has been a treasure surpassing the ...
