The Sunday School Teacher Who Walked Into a Shoe Store
On a spring afternoon in 1855, Edward Kimball paced the sidewalk outside Holton's Shoe Store in Boston, nearly talking himself out of going inside. He...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on John 1:29-42.
On a spring afternoon in 1855, Edward Kimball paced the sidewalk outside Holton's Shoe Store in Boston, nearly talking himself out of going inside. He was just a Sunday school teacher — nobody important. But one of his students, a rough-mannered seventeen-year-old named Dwight, had been showing up to class week after week, and Kimball felt compelled to speak with him directly about Jesus Christ.…
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