The Result Of Charity In Missions

The Result Of Charity In Missions
Here is a man who gives a thousand dollars to the missionary cause. Men cry out, “What a waste! what’s the use of sending New Testaments and missionaries, and spending your money in that way? Why don’t you send plows, and corn threshers, and locomotives, and telegraphs!”

But is it a waste? Ask the nations that have been saved; “Have not religious always preceded financial blessings?” Show me a nation where the Gospel of Christ triumphs, and I will show you a community prospered in a worldly sense.

It is a waste to comfort the distressed, to instruct the ignorant, to back the immoral, to capture for God the innumerable hosts of men who erst with quick feet were tramping the way to hell? Alas! for the man who has nothing better than “greenbacks” and Government securities!

There is no safe investment save that which is made in the bank, of which God holds the keys.—TALMAGE.

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The Gift of Himself

David Jeremiah

Long ago, there ruled a wise and good king in Persia who loved his people and often dressed in the clothes of a working man or a beggar so he could visit the poor and learn about their hardships.

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Healing Time

J. Stephen Lang

1868: On this date a political leader who grew up poor, had no formal education and was illiterate until his wife taught him to read and write, issued Proclamation 179 “granting full pardon and amnesty for the offense of treason against the United States during the late Civil War.”

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A Personal Promise

Charles Stanley

Jesus came to earth with the view of offering you salvation. He wanted you to have a restored relationship with the Father, a relationship that was so close, so intimate, that you would have your special place in the Father’s house (John 14:1–4).

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The Unexpected Savior

John MacArthur

Scripture records that when John the Baptist began his ministry, “The people were in expectation, and all reasoned in their hearts about John, whether he was the Christ or not” (Luke 3:15).

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Reflections on the Incarnation and Freedom of God

Philip Yancey

Think of the condescension involved: the incarnation, which sliced history into two parts had more animal than human witnesses. Think, too, of the risk. In the incarnation, God spanned the vast chasm of fear that had distanced him from his human creation.