Inspirational and informative stories of God’s power
The earth squished with mud beneath horses’ and riders’ feet as a mild wind blew away the guilt-laden clouds above Fairmount, Georgia. The Cowboy Church would still hold its third Saturday meeting regardless of the weather. “We change our clothes, not our plans,” Rebecca Hampton later explained. The kids nor the horses seemed to mind. Quite the contrary! Black cowboy hats, light blue hooded sweatshirts, horses and ponies dotted the barnyard as twelve or more youth prepared their animals to…
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“Joshua! Get the ball from the goalie,” Gino Zalunardo yelled from the sidelines as the opposing team advanced. His son, the team captain, paused, bent forward and grabbed his knees. Something was obviously wrong, but the game continued. He was fourteen and full of life, loved hunting and fishing and dreamed of being a youth pastor. The after-the-game meal at Taco Bell found Joshua with his lip sagging, warning of a potentially serious problem. The CAT scan that the emergency…
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Winds blow across the Irish Sea adding a chill to the fall air in the English town of Blackpool. On England’s northwest coast, the natural beauty of its setting –the clear horizon, the beach quality and shoreline features – has few rivals, yet behind the beauty of the seaside resort lies one of England’s unhealthiest towns, one with its lowest life-expectancy rate and one where drug addiction, all night drinking, payday lenders and depression fill the day-to-day lives of many…
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“I could see my brother smiling,” Sam Hogsed said speaking of his younger brother, Scott, whose death in a vehicle accident at age fourteen had changed Sam’s life as well as the lives of many others both inside and outside the family. “We gotta go work.” Scott, a year and a half Sam’s junior, had said. We gotta hoe Granny Cook’s tobacco.” “Ah, don’t worry about that. We’re having a good time right now. We’ll do that later,” Sam had…
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