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You perhaps recall the story of the blacksmith who gave his heart to God. Though conscientious in his living, still he was not prospering materially. In fact, it seems that from the time of his conversion more trouble, affliction and loss were sustained than ever before. Everything seemed to be going wrong. One day a friend who was not a Christian stopped at the little gorge to talk to him. Sympathizing with him in some of his trials, the friend said “It seems strange to me that so much affliction should pass over you just at the time when you...

The most unlikely hero saved a house full of children in Queens early Sunday. Their home was fully engulfed in flames and it wasn’t a firefighter, but a cab driver, that was catching them as they jumped from a second-floor window, neighbors said. “A lady in the house was crying for help. … He went to the side of the house, and e told them all to jump,’’ said Tracy-Ann Thomas, 35, who lives across from the home. “He had his hands stretched out and was catching every one of them.” The hero cab driver was just passing by when...

How is it that God above Has never gone on strike Because he was not treated fair In things He didn’t like. If only once He’d given up, And said, ‘That’s it, I’m through! I’ve had enough of those on earth, So this is what I’ll do; I’ll give my orders to the sun – ‘Cut off the heat supply!’ And to the moon – ‘Give no more Light, and run the ocean dry.’ Then just to make things really tough And put the pressures on, ‘Turn off the vital oxygen Till every breath is gone!’ You know, He would...

Davion only is a 15 year-old orphan boy, desperate for home to call his own. “My name is Davion and I’ve been in foster care since I was born … I know God hasn’t given up on me. So I’m not giving up either,” said David at the St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church in St. Petersburg, Florida. He was born while his mother was in jail. Just last year, she died there. He has been bouncing around the foster system his entire life, living without a family. He currently lives at the Eckerd’s Carlton Manor residential group home with 12...

An old story tells us about a man who asked three stone masons what they were doing. The first man said he was laying bricks. The second man described his work as building a wall. But it was the third man who explained genuine concern for his work. He said, “I am raising a great cathedral.” Ask this same question to a group of fathers concerning their role in the family, and you would get many contrasting answers. One father might say, “I am supporting my family.” Another father might see his role differently and say, “I am raising children.”...