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When Satan rings your number
One of the most distracting things that can happen during a church service, second only to crying babies and sleeping deacons, is when the phone rings. You know the drill. The pastor is drawing the Scriptural points together and the power of the message is hitting home... then Satan personally dials your mobile number and next thing you know cows are mooing or we're all bopping to the Nokia® tune. Of course everyone in the
John Vaughn on disabilities
I want to share three quotes by John Vaughn, taken from his book More Precious Than Gold (pp. 205, 207, 212). The first captures his philosophy of disability very well. A handicap is a responsibility! It is an exclamation point in a person's life message. Whatever we're saying with our lives, we say more emphatically if we are disabled. In another place, he describes an incident involving his disabled daughter Becky. Becky was trying to
Martyrs of Australian missions
It has been said that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. Most Christians are familiar with the great British and American missionary martyrs of previous centuries, but perhaps less familiar are the martyrs of Australian missions. The first Australian missionaries to plant their blood in the seedbed of the mission field were two sisters, Topsy and Nellie Saunders, and another young lady, Annie Gordon. It was 1895 and the anti-foreigner
J. Oswald Sanders on leadership
"The young man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others snooze, pray while others daydream. Slothful habits are overcome, whether in thought, deed, or dress. The emerging leader eats right, stands tall, and prepares himself to wage a good warfare. He will without reluctance undertake the unpleasant task that others avoid or the hidden duty that others evade because it wins no public applause. As the Spirit fills his life,