... courageous preachers of the Reformation era, the frontier tent preachers of this country, and the missionaries who have fanned out around the world. The new age of printing was inaugurated with, what else? the Bible. Yet today ... being communicated by music throughout the whole worship service. The gospel can also be communicated through stories from literature. One congregation in North Dakota will never forget Henry Van Dyke's The Other Wise Man, because it was told in a creative fashion one Christmas. Just ...
... which one woman wrote: "My husband is a very special man, and I would love to see his face on Mt. Rushmore. I know this is a big request, but how might I go about getting this idea in motion?" Signed, "His Biggest Fan." For an answer, Zaslow called the folks in South Dakota who tend to Mount Rushmore. A spokeswoman didn't question or dismiss the qualifications of this woman's husband, but she did say the couple was out of luck: Mount Rushmore has no more carvable rock. "There's no way another head could ...
... All for the sake of Christ. And yet his joy, his faith, his confidence never wavered. He gave up everything for the sake of the one thing that truly matters. YOU ARE NEVER WRONG TO TRADE THAT WHICH IS TEMPORAL FOR THAT WHICH IS ETERNAL. Fans of the American Wild West will find in Deadwood, South Dakota a museum in which there is this inscription left by a beleaguered prospector: "I lost my gun. I lost my horse. I am out of food. The Indians are after me. But I've got all the gold I can carry!" (2) We might ...
... of a place called Wall Drug Store. Not Wal-Mart Drug Store. Wall Drug Store. Though located in Wall, South Dakota (pop. 800), this little business starts advertising its distant presence while you're at least a dozen states away. Especially on ... . Apparently the crowd of people who followed Jesus from one side of the Sea of Galilee to the other would have been great fans of Wall Drug. They had just been the recipients of one of Jesus' most astonishing miracles all five thousand of them had been fed ...
... aren’t always understandable to others. I remember my dad’s cousin talking about a recent Danish immigrant to North Dakota nearly a hundred years ago. He came into the mercantile one day, all excited, to announce to the gathered farmers that ... of our sins must be dealt with, Jesus didn’t say that God directs the hurricane that drowns entire villages, nor does God fan the flames that overtake firefighters. If God does such things, then Jesus, God’s Son, was only going around fixing what his heavenly ...
