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Shocked student met God on bus
Published: 29th Jan 2013
“POWER like electricity flowed through me from head to toe. My hair stood on end and I shouted ‘Yes! It’s true!”
19-year-old Laurence Cooper’s conversion experience, on a bus, was nothing if not dramatic.
Drama wasn’t new to Laurence – though he insists that shouting on buses was not a habit (“I knew my social Ps and Qs”). He...
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Black belt traded for red cross
Published: 21st May 2012
"I LOVED the adrenaline of fighting" Perry says "even though it's all controlled in karate". But now he's given it all up to be a radical Christian.
"I felt God's energy" says the now 22-year-old. "I just want to win people, to befriend and love them, and call them to live for Jesus."
Why the change? Perry's upbringing could...
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Gratitude in the darkest hour
Published: 24th Jan 2012
HUMANLY speaking, Martin Rinkart (1586-1649) was in the wrong place at the wrong time. In God's plan, though, he was in the right place and destined to be a shining example of gratitude to God in the direst of circumstances.
He had just been made Lutheran minister of the walled town of Eilenburg, north-east of Leipzig, when the Thirty Years War broke out. It lasted for the rest of...
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Zombie church - wake up!
Published: 18th Jan 2012
A FRIEND of mine, a charismatic Catholic, had an office in the Vatican for 11 years. With others, he would visit Pope John Paul II and lay on hands, praying for the Pope in tongues. After one of these sessions the Pope said to the group, “When you visit you bring me Jesus.” One asked what his many other visitors brought. “Problems,” came the doleful response.
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Talking to Shane Claiborne
Published: 15th Jan 2012
Thanks for giving us your time, Shane. You tell quite a bit of your own story in The Irresistible Revolution. Could you tell us about one or two of the turning points in your life?
The big one was in 1995. Some homeless families moved into a derelict cathedral in Philadelphia and began a struggle over their right to live there. When Philadelphia began to really...
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