Posts Tagged ‘transformation’
Real happiness
I grew up in a Romanian orphanage. For almost fifteen years I lived with 100 other children. In 1992 missionaries came from England to my orphanage. They stayed about two weeks with us.
Jesus loves me!
The church that I attended most Sundays was the Orthodox Church. I never took a Bible to read because I never saw anyone with the Bible and never heard about God. Every day the missionaries taught us songs and they prayed for us. They said that Jesus loved me. I was very happy to hear that, because I never received any love from the teachers that cared for me and it was the first time in my life that I heard that someone loved me.
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The 1859 Ulster Revival : Before and After
In the first half of the 19th century Ulster was at a low ebb spiritually, so much so that The Irish Presbyterian magazine recorded in 1853, “Many seem to put on religion with their Sabbath clothes... The Bible lies unopened on their shelves… And what a mass of baptised heathenism surrounds our doors! ”
Prayerless
Yet there were many pulpits with godly preachers who carried a burden for the spiritual state of the land. Feeling burdened by the need around them, they tried to get their congregations interested in prayer, without much success.
One lamented over his people: “The congregation was in a most unsatisfactory state…year after year passed yet still no fruit, no outpouring of the Spirit. What alarmed me most was the indisposition, almost hostility of the people to meetings of prayer. They seemed mostly to think that they were well enough and that I was unnecessarily disturbing them.”
One of these faithful ministers said, “There was no power to bring home to the people the message of the gospel.”
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A blacksmith speaks
A CHRISTIAN BLACKSMITH, whose life was full of suffering and pain, was once challenged by an unbeliever to account for all the suffering God had allowed in his life. His response to the challenge went something like this: “As a blacksmith, I often take a piece of iron and put it into the fire to bring it to a white heat. Then I put it on the anvil and strike it a few times to see if it can be tempered. If I think it can, I plunge it into cold water, suddenly changing the temperature.
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Famous atheist speaks for Christianity
Matthew Parris is a broadcaster and writer who describes himself as an atheist.
In December last year he wrote an article in The Times, entitled As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God.
It is fascinating to see the effects of Christianity on a continent, through the eyes of an atheist.
Here are some of Matthew Parris’s comments about what he sees in African Christians and how it challenges his beliefs.
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