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Among the stories of the May 22, 2011 tornado that devastated Joplin, Missouri, are incredible heroism as the staff of St. John’s Regional Hospital scrambled to protect patients who could not be moved to safety — and of the scores of shoppers caught inside a Walmart as the twister churned into the city’s northside business…

    You and I may not be all that surprised that discredited cult leader Harold Camping blew it again. No, just as it did not on his previous “guaranteed” date —  September 6, 1994 — the world did not end Saturday. May 21, 2011, came and went. If you remember, the president of the Family Radio network, which…

  One of the criticisms that some Protestants raise against Catholics from time to time is that the Vatican doesn’t emphasize Bible reading. Such critics may have been startled when this week, Pope Benedict XVI urged 20,000 people filling St. Peter’s Square to “read the Bible, which I hope you have in your homes, and…

Why was it such a big deal? Because deep within all of us, there’s a longing for Jesus to return — to take His people home.  That’s why this classic prayer “Come, Thou Long-Awaited Jesus!” — written 300 years ago by John Wesley’s brother Charles — still speaks to all of our hearts.
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