Tag: evangelism
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Wedding Invitations
My son and his fiancé have been planning their wedding. It’s quite the challenge in this pandemic. They picked the date long before stores and venues shut down. They chose the anniversary of a disastrous, near fatal accident my son had five years ago. Both had decided to redeem the bad memory and turn it…
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I Just Returned …
I just returned from a mission trip to India (or at least that’s where I think I went). Here is what happened … ~~~~~~~~~~~ The scammers have been getting more sophisticated about tricking me to pick up the phone. When they call, my phone now regularly shows numbers of cell phones in my area. My…
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One More Person
Someone once said, “As Christians we stand at the gates of hell and redirect traffic.” When I contemplate our efforts as Christians in evanglism, I am reminded of the ending scene of the movie “Schindler’s List”. Years ago that scene left me undone and made (and still has) a big impact on me, a native German.…
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Seizing Moments
It takes but a moment for strangers turn friends, For smiles turn cold hearts kind. Compassionate moments have power to mend, Turn a soul from being blind. Moments pass by and chances wear thin To seek and live for God now. Make every effort to look out from within, To make fleeting moments count. For…
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Eating Seeds
I gave you my Word as a seed to plant Into the heart of the lost and faint. I tilled the ground and the seed was ready. The soil was nourished, the rains came steady. But fields lay barren, the harvest was scares. The fruit was little – instead there grew tares. I saw in…
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Winter of the Soul
Cold covers the earth. She has seeped under every rock and crevasse and is trying her best to make her way through my front door and windows. She is staying, not budging nor moving on soon. She has blanketed the barren trees with her companion, the snow. Branches stretch like bony hands into the sky…
Heidi Viars 