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The Piano Tuner Who Heard What No One Else Could

Martin Backhaus spent forty-three years tuning pianos in Hamburg, Germany. He never performed on stage, never recorded an album, never earned a degree from the...

1 Corinthians 2:1-16Universal

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The Blind Piano Tuner of Nashville

For thirty-two years, Gerald Morrow tuned pianos along Music Row in Nashville without ever reading a note of sheet music. Born blind, he never attended...

1 Corinthians 2:1-16Universal

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The Clapham Circle and the End of the Slave Trade

In the late 1700s, a small group of committed Christians gathered regularly in a village just south of London called Clapham. They became known as...

1 Corinthians 12:1-11Universal

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Love for Eternity - Dispensational (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)

"Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away." In dispensational perspective, some gifts are for this age; love is for all ages. In the millennial...

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The Blind Piano Tuner of Nashville

The Clapham Circle and the End of the Slave Trade

Love for Eternity - Dispensational (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)

The More Excellent Way - Pentecostal (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)

Love That Seeks No Self-Interest - Progressive (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)

Substitute "Christ" for "Love" - Christocentric (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)

Love That Sees the Neighbor's Need - Lutheran (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)

Love Never Fails - Baptist (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)

The Love of the Father - Charismatic (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)

The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park

Billy Graham on Personal Promise - Baptist (1 Corinthians 10:13)

Stanley Hauerwas on Community and Temptation - Anabaptist (1 Corinthians 10:13)

Bill Johnson on Word of Wisdom - Charismatic (James 1:5)

Gustavo Gutiérrez on Temptation of the Powerful - Liberation (1 Corinthians 10:13)

John Calvin on God's Sovereign Limitation - Reformed (1 Corinthians 10:13)

Martin Luther on Temptation and the Word - Lutheran (1 Corinthians 10:13)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Christ as Escape - Christocentric (1 Corinthians 10:13)

Tim Keller on Temptation and Witness - Missional (1 Corinthians 10:13)

Pope Francis on Mercy and Temptation - Catholic (1 Corinthians 10:13)

Joyce Meyer on Spirit Power Over Temptation - Pentecostal (1 Corinthians 10:13)

Patient Love in Mission - Missional (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)

The Love That Stayed - Traditional (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)

C.S. Lewis on the Hardest Kind - Anglican (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)