Category: Presidential Perspectives

February 22, 2012

Praying for Outreach Eyes

by Robert Bugbee “I have many people in this city” (Acts 18:10). Jesus came in a vision one night and said it to His servant, St. Paul. He knew this man needed to see something his eyes were missing. Paul was in Corinth as a…

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December 16, 2011

President’s Christmas Message: Standing at the door

Jesus knocks, but occupants inside don’t always hear by Robert Bugbee The words appear in red letters in special editions of the Bible: “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come…

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November 1, 2011

Remembering the departed faithful

by Robert Bugbee For all the saints who from their labours rest… In the old days, especially in villages and out in the country, on your way into church on Sunday, you walked past gravestones. The church had its own cemetery. Sometimes you noticed upturned…

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September 12, 2011

Praying for pastors: God alone can give His people an increase of harvest-workers

by Robert Bugbee God will have to give us the pastors we need. He promises in the Old Testament, “I will place shepherds over them who will tend them” (Jeremiah 23:4). The New Testament says it, too: “It was He who gave some…to be pastors…

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April 30, 2011

The power of little words

by David Bode Have you ever noticed how important little words are? Take, for example, the difference between the words a and the. We call one the “indefinite article.” When we talk about a picture, we could be referring to any one of hundreds of…

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April 25, 2011

Words of life in a dying world

by Don Schiemann  As a pastor, I have often been called to the hospital when a church member is close to death. There are a number of Bible passages I read to the dying to comfort and strengthen them in their last hours—in some cases,…

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