WE SMELL LIKE OUR WORK Author Rita Snowden remembers sitting in a café late one afternoon in a small village near Dover, England. As she was sipping her tea, she was suddenly overwhelmed by an astonishing fragrance. It was quite simply one of the most pleasant aromas she had...
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Life Changing Moment
LIFE CHANGING MOMENT A near disaster at sea transformed one man’s life. And that ended up changing both music history and spiritual history. On May 10, 1748, the wooden frigate Greyhound – built to transport Africans to a life of slavery in the New World – was caught in...
Free Wheelchair Mission
FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION Don Schoendorfer’s “Gen One” wheelchair looks like something cobbled together from assorted spare parts. That’s because it is. Don, a mechanical engineer from California, was vacationing in Morocco about 20 years ago with his wife. His conscience was seared by an image he would never forget. ...
In Unison They Yelled “Jesus”
IN UNISON THEY YELLED “JESUS” More than 20 years ago, I attended a Promise Keepers gathering of about 40,000 pastors in Atlanta. It was an assembly that represented hundreds of different church groups and denominational affiliations. We heard speaker after speaker. After a while their messages, many of which...
Imprisoned by Marble
IMPRISONED BY MARBLE Only an artistic genius could produce, in a single lifetime, some of the greatest-ever works in the classic categories of painting, architecture, and sculpture. The Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo was just such a genius. Think of his painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel ,...