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Experiencing Emmanuel in Prison
Roy Borges writes in Today's Christian:
Locked behind the razor-wire fences of a Florida prison is no place to spend a holiday. I'd spent 15 Christmases ...
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Chinese Prisoner Finds True Freedom
Thousands of Chinese Christians were killed during the Boxer Rebellion—a nationwide effort to snuff out any foreign influences in China that were ...
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Woman Pours Her Life into Prisoners
A riot raged in the La Mesa Prison in Tijuana, Mexico. Thousands of inmates battled the guards with bottles and rocks, while the guards shot back with ...
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Imprisoned Chinese Christian Experiences God's Power
Chinese Christian leader Brother Zhong tells this story:
I was attending a training course for my house church network's council members and youth ...
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Prisoners Find Liberation Hard to Accept
In his book Ghost Soldiers, Hampton Sides tells the story of a dramatic mission during World War II. On January 28th, 1945, 121 hand-selected Army Rangers ...
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Christian Prisoner Mysteriously Freed
After watching the Jesus film and listening to Christian radio, on July 15, 2001, Samuel (not his real name) took a monumental step for an Afghan and ...
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Dostoevsky Finds Christ after Escaping Death
Fyodor Dostoevsky was one of the most famous and accomplished Russian writers of the 19th century.
Early in his life, Dostoevsky underwent a virtual resurrection. ...
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"Shawshank Redemption": Imprisoned by Sin
Warning: The movie clip of this illustration contains profanity. PreachingToday.com recommends that you not show the video but rather simply tell the ...
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"The Hurricane": Love Sets Us Free
Denzel Washington stars in The Hurricane, the true story of professional boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter's life. At the height of his boxing ...
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What Time I Have Left
Chuck Colson tells the following story of visiting Mississippi's Parchman Prison:
Most of the death row inmates were in their bunks wrapped in blankets, ...
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