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Wilberforce and the Forty-Six Year Calling - Illustration on Sermon | IllustrateTheWord

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Wilberforce and the Forty-Six Year Calling

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In 1787, a twenty-seven-year-old member of Parliament named William Wilberforce sat at an oak desk in his London home and scribbled five words in his...

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1 Corinthians 1:3-9

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