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"Remember me"
Published: 29th Jan 2013
YOU’VE SEEN them by the side of roads: flowers, plaques and markers. Often taped badly to traffic lights and to fence posts. Ragged, faded old bunches, or bright fresh wreaths. Imperishable plastic poppies.
They speak of grief, these roadside memorials of all kinds and colours.
In the 1940s, the Arizona State Highway Patrol began using white crosses to mark...
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Messed-up world?
Published: 12th May 2012
A BUS carrying school children on a holiday trip crashes - many die. A bomb kills six of our young soldiers in the blink of an eye.
Four kids are shot dead outside a French school.
A mass killer stands trial for the murder of 77.
Has the world gone crazy? Look in the newspaper on any day and there's one constant theme: pain. What's the story?
And where is...
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Kony 2012: Make him infamous
Published: 10th May 2012
KONY'S going to be one of the most famous people on the planet by the end of this year. Kony? Kony who?
Joseph Kony is a murderous Ugandan warlord who has been responsible for the enslavement and abuse of tens of thousands of children and young people. Over 88 million (and counting) people, all over the world, have seen the viral video calling for the arrest and imprisonment of this...
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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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Double blow... many blessings
Published: 29th Sep 2009
GORDON and Jenny Martin lost both their children to a rare disease before they were three. Yet, though neither would say they had special qualities to weather such storms, their story emerges as a remarkable testimony to the comforting power of God.
Gordon as a student in the 60s, had found himself asking what life was all about when his parents separated. An encounter with some...
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