Category: amazing stories from times past
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Amazing stories from times past
Carried
Listen to me, you descendants of Jacob, all the remnant of the people of Israel, you whom I have upheld since your birth, and have carried since you were born. Even to your old age and gray hairs I am…
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Amazing stories from times pastOn conmen and other masters of deceit
God made man upright, but they have sought out many devices (Eccl. 7:29) There are vagabonds and there are villains; there are crooks and there…
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Amazing stories from times pastHis eyes are darker than wine, and his TEETH WHITER THAN MILK – Gen. 49:12
There are a number of references in the Bible to teeth. The word “teeth” is used on a number of occasions: to indicate blessing, as…
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Amazing stories from times pastThe Parable of Ryker and Samwell
Luke rightly says that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. That is to say, the heart is the core of one’s…
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Amazing stories from times pastRev. Alfred Sadd (1909-1942): a great man, and a faint shadow
The December 8, 1942 issue of The Times, the British daily newspaper based in London, published a small but complimentary obituary/article on the death of…
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Amazing stories from times pastFour days in the life of Albert Tenfold
What you’ll find below is a Reformed Perspective tradition that started back in the winter of 1991 – 31 years ago! Each year since then,…
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Amazing stories from times pastArchbishop Ussher and being fully known
It is a very special thing to be known, to have someone look at you and understand you and love you simultaneously. My father lost…
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Amazing stories from times pastThe Gift of Flight: Two brothers’ determined quest
As stories go, this one sounds as if it comes from Through the Looking Glass: and what Alice found there, the classic story by Lewis…
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Amazing stories from times pastThe Son of the Clothmaker – a slice of the English Reformation
During the reign of Edward VI (1547-1553), Maurice Abbot, a clothmaker in Guildford, Surrey, England, and his wife Alice, became committed Protestants. And during their…
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Amazing stories from times pastThe Good Hanoverian (Luke 10:29-37)
There is a remarkable anecdote about George III of England, that king with whom most people are acquainted through the 1994 movie The Madness of…
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Amazing stories from times pastCrying, “Abba! Father!”
I have a friend in a nursing home whom I visit regularly. Her name is Dinah and she is a widow. We met her through…
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Amazing stories from times past30 days of April
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die… ****…