How far does a star shine?
Try 93 million miles for our closest star - - - the sun. Actually we would be in perpetual night without it! And I do love the dawn- - - with energy streaming 93 million miles to push back the darkness.
Oh I love the dawn!
He was an agnostic college kid - not sure he believed in God and definitely mad at Him if there was one! The religion he had been exposed to totally turned him off; that is, until one day his mother found an old torn photograph of a two year old boy. Sharing it with him he asked, “Why is it torn?” And she began to tell him a story. It was a story that would change his life and impact the lives of hundreds of thousands of people!
“I accidentally tore the picture that was taped to the iron lung when I took it off just after your father died. You were just two years old and your father was stricken with the polio that paralyzed him. The iron lung was an antique, monstrous, medical machine that kept him alive for an extra year. He asked me to tape it there so he could pray for you.”
That agnostic and angry college student suddenly felt his heart open like he had no control of it. He soon invited God into his life, deciding to follow Jesus. Oh yes - - - his name is Philip Yancey, who just happens to be one of the most prolific and powerful authors of this century. Without question he has influenced millions to consider Christ and dare to follow Him.
I had the privilege of meeting Philip Yancey one time and found him to be humble, gentle and extremely intelligent. Most of all I remember him to be a person whose life is full of joy.
Dads, don’t give up praying for your children. The God who created the stars will use your prayers to make their lives shine.
Oh I love the dawn!
He was an agnostic college kid - not sure he believed in God and definitely mad at Him if there was one! The religion he had been exposed to totally turned him off; that is, until one day his mother found an old torn photograph of a two year old boy. Sharing it with him he asked, “Why is it torn?” And she began to tell him a story. It was a story that would change his life and impact the lives of hundreds of thousands of people!
“I accidentally tore the picture that was taped to the iron lung when I took it off just after your father died. You were just two years old and your father was stricken with the polio that paralyzed him. The iron lung was an antique, monstrous, medical machine that kept him alive for an extra year. He asked me to tape it there so he could pray for you.”
That agnostic and angry college student suddenly felt his heart open like he had no control of it. He soon invited God into his life, deciding to follow Jesus. Oh yes - - - his name is Philip Yancey, who just happens to be one of the most prolific and powerful authors of this century. Without question he has influenced millions to consider Christ and dare to follow Him.
I had the privilege of meeting Philip Yancey one time and found him to be humble, gentle and extremely intelligent. Most of all I remember him to be a person whose life is full of joy.
Dads, don’t give up praying for your children. The God who created the stars will use your prayers to make their lives shine.
Caleb
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