Word: prays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remember Paul's words about Andronicus and Junia: "They were in Christ before me." When ministers find in their parishes "the old Christians of both sexes, who gave themselves to Christ and to his God before we did," he advises, "sit at their feet . . . ask them to pray with you and for you; give thanks to God that they are not only your flock but also your shepherds . . . Their name is legion, and they come from all classes and walks of life. Offhand, I can think of a Philadelphia lawyer, a school carpenter, a dining-room steward, a housewife...
...pain was real-and she was healed! What right do we of the Protestant Church have, by our shortsightedness or our blind spots, to deny this woman and many others the embracing love of the healing Christ and the help of loving fellow Christians who will take time to pray for their healing...
...waves were already crashing on the deck. Ashore, where the lighthouse keeper had spread the alarm, Santona's fishermen tried to launch lifeboats, but the angry seas tossed them back like corks onto the jagged reefs. Behind them black-shawled women gathered on the beach to kneel and pray in the driving rain...
...slope called Cerro del Sapo (Toad Hill). Overlooking the blue Pacific was a second slab with two Picasso-like figures carved on it. Locally called Los Reyes (The Kings), the stone is still revered as a miracle-working idol. The people of the vicinity make pilgrimages to it to pray for rain, and the carvings show traces of wax from their votive candles. Near it is another carved stone, badly eroded, whose local name is "The Queen...
...units of smaller outdoor advertising and 1,500 tube-station posters. They passed out 20,000 car stickers, organized 1,000 volunteer ushers to work on 200 man shifts in huge (11,000 seats) Harringay Arena. About 5,000 home prayer meetings a week were held to pray for the success of the crusade, and 2,700 "counselors" were trained to follow through with the men and women who step forward at Billy Graham's call to "make a decision for Christ...