Nancy Lewis Shelton (Missouri, USA)
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Sign Up TodayLet no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. - 1 Timothy 4:12 (NRSV)
As I watched Lainie, my 15-year-old granddaughter, walk out of Central High School, I noticed that she was wearing a cross necklace and had John 3:16 printed on her shirt. On the way to drop off her friend Jeannie, I listened to the girls chat about an after-school Christian meeting...
Today I will find ways to share God’s word.
Those hesitant to share their faith
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I join many of those who will pray for you as you seek to discern what you are called to be at this moment. May God grant you the courage to fulfill that calling. May we all open our eyes and see the misery, open our ears and hear the cries of God’s people, and, like God through the Lord Jesus Christ, be incarnate amongst them.”
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