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Mother Teresa of Calcutta - 'many are called but few are chosen'.

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Mother Teresa said “I realized that I had the call to take care of the sick and the dying, the hungry, the naked, the homeless - to be God's Love in action to the poorest of the poor.” That was the beginning of the Missionaries of Charity." She didn't hesitate, she didn't question. She asked permission to leave the Loreto congregation and to establish a new order of sisters. She received that permission from Pope Pius XII. In 1952 Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charity began the work for which they have been noted ever since. Her order received permission from Calcutta officials to use a portion of the abandoned temple of Kali, the Hindu goddess of transition and destroyer of demons. Mother Teresa founded here the Kalighat Home for the Dying, which she named Nirmal Hriday (meaning "Pure Heart"). She and her fellow nuns gathered dying people off the streets of Calcutta and brought them to this home to care for them during the days before the

Mary Kom Bronze Medallist Winner at The London Olympics

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Prominent journalist Barkha Dutt tweeted: “Mary Kom you shouldn't be sorry. It is us who should be sorry for not giving you the love & facilities that was your due long ago.” Indian boxer MC Mary Kom has given her country more than just a sporting spectacle with her bronze medal win at the London Olympics. It may not have been apparent to the 29-year-old boxer, but her teary-eyed apology for not bringing home the gold has pulled the relatively isolated north-east Indian states much closer to the rest of the country. She is from Manipur in the North Eastern part of India. A great Boxer, a humble person and has a wonderful family to support and above all she loves her country. The mother-of-two hails from the remote state of Manipur in the country`s politically fragile north-eastern region, and her triumph is likely to integrate the country`s seven easterly states in the true sense. Insurgency and violence have marked life in the north-eastern region for many

God's Prediction About The Future- Bible Prophecy

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Pastor Greg Laurie in one of his writings"As Good As Done" has wonderfully described God's prediction about the future. He says; I am amazed at how people will get all worked up over something like the Mayan calendar or will listen to some self-proclaimed prophet or guru, yet they will neglect the Bible, which predicts the future not once, not twice, but hundreds of times with 100 percent accuracy. God, living in eternity, does not have a yesterday or a tomorrow. It is all a continuum to Him. So God can look at the future with as much accuracy as you and I can look at the past—even more so, in fact. God has perfect recollection, and He has perfect foresight. So when He says something will happen, it's as though, in one sense, it has already happened. You see, tomorrow is like yesterday to God. So when God gives a prediction about the future, it is not as though He is going out on some kind of limb. It is already an established fact. The Bible is a book th

Bringing Up Godly Children in an Ungodly World

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One day Abraham Lincoln was in a slave market and saw a beautiful young slave girl being auctioned. Lecherous men were bidding on her, so Lincoln began to bid. Finally, she was sold to Lincoln. He took the certificate of sale and handed it to her saying, “You’re free.” She asked, “What do you mean, free?” He said, “You are free.” She said, “Free to do what I want to do?” He said, “Yes.” “Free to say what I want to say?” He said, “Yes.” “Free to go where I want to go?” He said, “Yes.” She said, “Then I am going with you.” The biblical worldview of today's culture is that it is dark—and getting darker. By its very nature, it cannot get anything but worse because it has no inherent goodness to build on. As John MacArthur said, "Man has increased in scientific, medical, historical, educational, psychological, and technological knowledge to an astounding degree. But he has not changed his own basic nature and he has not improved society. His confidence has increased, b

You Can Be a World Changer!

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You Can Be a World Changer! With everything that is taking place in America and around the world, we can see through Matthew 24 that Jesus is coming soon.  With the turmoil in the middle east, the different wars and rumors of wars, the severe earth quakes, the love of many grown cold and growing cold around the world, and different political unrests in many nations, we can clearly see that the stage is being set for Jesus to return.   We have an opportunity right in front of us to reach this nation and the nations of the world like never before.  As we have been reaching out in cities here in the United States, there has been a fresh openness in the people we are ministering to.  In light of everything that’s taking place, many are open to hearing the Gospel that weren’t in years past.  This is the season to begin to reach this nation and the nations of the world because the time is short and the harvest is plentiful.   Yes, the Gospel is good news and glad tidings.  T