... , b. Ministering to the needs of the poor, the sick, the lonely, and the powerless, c. Engaging in the struggle to free people from sin, fear, oppression, hunger, and injustice, d ... Presbyterian and Reformed, and we helped put them there." She talks about speaking in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley to a gathering of six small churches all started by the ... James Knox Polk, a direct descendant of Scotland's John Knox, and of Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan and Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison and Woodrow ...
... their inquiries than the other disciples. “Sir,” they said to him, “we would like to see Jesus.” Philip went to tell Andrew; and together they told Jesus. Jesus was not impressed. He replied as he often did with a somewhat cryptic message about his ... when the story came out about how the D.C. snipers were apprehended. Do you remember in October 2002 when those tragic shootings were being perpetrated in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia? Ten people were killed and three others were critically ...
... these are people like Steve Jobs, Nelson Mandela, musician John Lennon, President Andrew Jackson, and many others. Many great people have found themselves orphaned. What ... night of the soul. Their sense of abandonment overwhelms them. Bass Mitchell, a pastor in West Virginia, tells of working in his first job in a grocery store. He says that he ... to know that someone cared about him. The doctors didn’t expect him to live, but J. C. Penney decided he wasn’t yet ready to give up. He cried out to God for help ...
... to set us free from the power of death. It’s like a judge a few years ago in Fairfax County, Virginia who heard a landlord-tenant dispute for a landlord who wanted to evict a deaf couple who couldn’t afford ... Year B, eds Dawn Ottoni-Wilhelm, Ronald J. Allen, And Dale P. Andrews (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011). Cited by Pastor Chrissy Cataldo, “Looking ... Harding. 5. Rocky HenriquesSource: The Timothy Report, Copyright (c) 2000 Swan Lake Communications,www.swanlake.twoffice.com WITandWISDOM ...
Over 500 hundred years ago, a young man named Francis was living the good life. He was rich, handsome, pampered, popular. And though nominally a Christian, Jesus was a stranger to him. One day, Francis was forced to interact with a loathsome leper. In a moment of dreaded touch, the leper was transformed, literally becoming before his eyes the very image of Christ. And Francis was changed. From that day forward, he felt called to discover the Christ in each person and creature around him, no matter how poor ...
