In everything set them an example by doing what is good … so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us. Titus 2:7a, 8b Alfred Sadd (1942) Wartime Missionary Alfred was an established missionary on the...
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Command them [the rich] to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is...
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Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. Deuteronomy 6:5 Franz Jagerstätter (1943) Executed by Nazis “I can say from my own experience how painful life often is when one lives as a halfway...
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And they will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make them stand. Romans 14:4b (NRSV) Stamatios (1680) Unfair Taxes As a community leader, Stamatios’ mandate was to represent his village, Hagios Georgios (Saint George), before the Ottoman...
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For thus says the Lord GOD: I myself will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. As shepherds seek out their flocks when they are among their scattered sheep, so I will seek out my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places to which they...
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Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were put to death by stoning; they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated – the...
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Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls. 1 Peter...
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Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Matthew 10:28 Ia (360) Successful Slave Evangelist Ia, a Greek slave in Persia, was arrested because of...
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Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the...
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No lion will be there, nor any ravenous beast; they will not be found there. But only the redeemed will walk there, and those the LORD has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness...
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