Ann Hasseltine Judson (1789 – 1826) was one of the first female American foreign missionaries. She was a Bradford, Mass. native, teacher, and the wife of Andoiram Judson. “Two weeks after they married, the couple set out on a mission trip — first to India, then to Burma. While her husband was imprisoned in Burma […]
Continue reading...6. September 2017
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December 28, 1973 “a new book by the Nobel-winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn appeared in the Paris book markets. This book, too, was about prison--a documentary of the horrors of the Gulag Archipelago, Stalin's prison camps in central Asia, a system of inland "islands" which taken together would have been as big as the country of France. […]
Continue reading...13. October 2016
Send Comments to: Jim.Grunseth@Cru.Org Our nation and our churches are in trouble. When I watch or listen to the news, there is a growing indication that virtue is a lost commodity. The media jumps from one trouble spot to another, from one terrible murder to another, from one terrorist attack to another, and from one […]
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"Oh Jesus, I’m lost forever," cried a woman. The Revival by God that started in Wales in 1859 had spread. Hundreds of thousands of people repented. They cried out for Jesus to save them from their sin and eternal damnation. They came under conviction that they were out of options. They wanted Jesus and Him […]
Continue reading...18. August 2016
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The wretched man knew his time was up. His hour had come. His life had been a shambles up until this point. He had lived for himself. His objective all these years was to look out for Old Number One. He was selfish, wanting the best things in life at the expense of others. After […]
Continue reading...2. August 2016
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His scoped rifle was pointed right at me! This Communist Czechoslovakian Iron Curtain tower guard had me in his cross hairs. As an Army Lieutenant, it was my duty that day to take a military jeep deep in the German forest and inspect the border between Germany and Communist Czechoslovakia. I told my jeep driver […]
Continue reading...22. July 2016
When was the last time you wept over something? For most of us, it has been awhile. I remember weeping over the loss of my first wife after she succumbed to a 7 year battle against cancer. I remember shedding a tear when my dad died. I really lost it when we had to put […]
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6. September 2017
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