The Dilemma of ‘Weekend Missionaries’

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The Dilemma of ‘Weekend Missionaries’ (Do absolute rules become relative when you’re spreading the Gospel?) (February 1980) – On May 26, 1979, Melvin Bailey, a 32-year-old Christian pilot from Newport News, Virginia, left the USA in a rented Piper aircraft on a mission to Cuba. Accompanying him was a 31-year-old former schoolteacher, Tom White. They were carrying 750 pounds of Spanish-language, pro-Christian, anti-Communist leaflets sealed in plastic which they intended to scatter from the air over the island. Things went wrong…

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Moving from Pentecost to Gethsemane

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Moving from Pentecost to Gethsemane (Slow down enough to hear what God has to say.) (April 1980) – Even my wife (especially my wife) knew I was going to fast. Like a speeding train I whistled through grade crossings, roared over trestles just moments before then collapsed (thanking God I had made it just in time — never thinking it might have been my excess speed which caused the thing to fall down), and speed by passenger stations, too busy to even wave at the friendly folk gathered by the track, much less have time to stop and pick them up…

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The Day it Stopped Raining in Melbourne

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The Day it Stopped Raining in Melbourne (God still intervenes in the affairs of men when we pray.) (June 1980) – Shortly after I had been baptized in the Holy Spirit, I received a call from the principal of the high school in the community where we lived, asking me to preach the sermon to the graduating class at baccalaureate. The high school had never had a baccalaureate service before, but since several of the graduating seniors attended our little church, they but pressure on the school administration who agreed. It was to be a big affair in the football stadium the first Sunday night in June…

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(24 editions) A fool uses his reserve and

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(24 editions) A fool uses his reserve and does not replace it…; Guidelines for relationships; Nobody likes to be around a doting grandparent who is always showing photos of grandchildren…; Religious pigeon holes; Something odd has been happening here in Florida…; “The Holy Spirit is not looking for a building, he is looking for a body…”; Where you invest you life is more important than where you invest your money…; and more…

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