... ’s the first characteristic of resurrection living: a tranquil mind. THE SECOND MARK OF RESURRECTION LIVING IS AN UNQUENCHABLE JOY. Father Richard Carton of New Jersey was speaking to a group of second graders about the resurrection of Christ. One student asked, “What ... BrianL.Harbour, Broadman Press, Nashville, 1990. 11. “Live to Tell” words and music by Geoff Moore and Steven Curtis Chapman, Starstruck Music, copyright 1993. 12. And the Angels Were Silent, Max Lucado, p. 124, “Surviving Life.” ...
... prostitution, homosexuality, pornography--anythingyou want--you can find and be connected with through that system called the Internet. Richard Halverson was for many years pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., and Chaplain of ... in Ann Landers'' column, carried a while back. A teenage girl asked Ann to reprint a prose piece that a woman named Mary Curtis had written about the consequences a young woman faced when she gave up self-control in her life. The young inquirer who wrote ...
3. Relay for Life
Mt 16:24; 2 Tim 4:7
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Brett Blair
In January 1926, six-year-old Richard Stanley showed symptoms of diphtheria, signaling the possibility of an outbreak in the small town of Nome. When the boy passed away a day later, Dr. Curtis Welch began immunizing children and adults with an experimental but effective anti-diphtheria serum. But it wasn't long before Dr. Welch's supply ran out, and the nearest serum was in Nenana, Alaska 1000 miles of frozen wilderness away. Amazingly, a group of trappers and prospectors volunteered to cover ...
... is where a spiritual solution really begins to take hold of us. It is when we are able to return good for evil. The Rev. Curtis Goforth tells a story about his old Hebrew professor’s experience one year on an archaeological dig in Israel. He said that there were a ... will be able to move to that highest level of spiritual maturity, that of returning hatred and anger with love. 1. Richard F. Shepard, In Enemy Waters (St. Louis: Bethany Press, 1962), p. 64. 2. Marshall Goldsmith, What Got You Here Won’t ...
... younger worshippers, Chuck Colson went to prison as part of the infamous Watergate burglary and subsequent cover-up during the presidency of Richard Nixon. Colson was part a determined conspiracy to cover up a crime committed by high government officials. Colson says: “The Watergate cover ... (Kindle Edition). 6. http://day1.org/852-the_good_news_is_for_everyone. 7. The Rev. J. Curtis Goforth, O.S.L., http://revgoforth.wordpress.com/sermons-on-luke/luke-2436b-48. 8. Breakpoint Online Commentaries (April ...
Richard Sears was a young man when his father died, and so he had to go to work to support the family. He took a job on the railroad and worked his way up to station agent in North Redwood, Minnesota. To earn extra money he sold coal and lumber. One day a box full of watches was delivered to his station by mistake. The local jeweler decided he didn't want the watches. But instead of sending the watches back to the company, Richard Sears decided to buy the watches himself and proceeded to sell them. In a ...