The White Shirt and the Coal Dust
In the early days of his ministry, Billy Graham used to tell of a miner who worked the deep shafts of a Pennsylvania coal mine....
This is tradition perspectives on holiness, drawing on 1 Peter 1:15-16.
In the early days of his ministry, Billy Graham used to tell of a miner who worked the deep shafts of a Pennsylvania coal mine. Every day the man descended into the darkness, and every day he came home black with soot — it clung to his hands, his face, his lungs. When Christ saved him at a revival meeting, something changed.…
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