... shot at life. God can do much more than that. God can give you an entirely new heart that is guaranteed for a better life in this world and eternal life in the world to come. Will you accept that new heart today? 1. Contributed. Adapted from a sermon by Ray Ellis, http://www.sermoncentral.com/sermons/christmas-miracles-of-transformations-ray-ellis-sermon-on-christmas-advent-53410.asp. 2. Contributed. Source unknown. 3. John Ortberg attributes this story to Lee Strobel’s book, The Case for Faith.
... asking for help. She just needed to get to the airport’s urgent care facility. The woman kept walking. By this time, Ellie had taken two nitroglycerin tablets. The wheelchair still hadn’t arrived. She took a few steps toward a uniformed woman monitoring lines ... They were casually eating chocolate bars. Suddenly the unthinkable happened. A deadly hand grenade landed next to Ray Brennan. Then Ray Brennan did something quite extraordinary. Brennan casually tossed aside his candy wrapper, threw his body on the ...
... . There were times when he wanted to give in, when he was tempted to denounce his faith. But one day, a ray of hope entered the prison camp. The authorities said that soon the prisoners' spouses would be allowed to visit them. The men ... those who love Christ around the throne of God. Maybe Heaven will be like the receiving station at Ellis Island. That's the way one author described it. At the old Ellis Island receiving station in New York harbor, the immigrants would come rushing in after many days on an ...
... up. Most people in this kind of traumatic situation would abandon all hope, but even when all seems hopeless Job maintains a ray of hope that sustains him. Although a careful analysis of Job 19 in its context does not support reading it as a ... can be illustrated by Emma Lazarus’s memorable poem inscribed on a tablet at the base of the Statue of Liberty on Ellis Island. Some of the famous words from that inscription read, “Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free ...
... of the world with lots of sunshine developed darker pigment in their eyes and skin which protected them against the damaging rays of the bright sun. People who lived in areas with reduced sunlight developed lighter pigment--ideal for allowing the skin to ... standing on the shore to greet the first Pilgrims. Others came later, as cargo on slave ships, and still others as immigrants through Ellis Island. Does it make a difference to which of those groups we belong? Of course, it does. Some of us were born with ...
