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So...That's What Walking by Faith Means.

Submitted by Mike on September 18, 2008 - 7:38pm
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Lauren and I have been reading aloud together this biography of Amy Carmichael. Amy Carmichael was a missionary to India in the WWI era who ran an orphanage of sorts in Dohnavur, India. She and those working with her rescued countless girls from becoming temple prostitutes.

In a particularly trying time of her ministry, her mother back in England died. One of her closest friends and assistants, Ponnamal, passed away around the same time, as did her mentor, a man by the name of Iyer Walker. She had just come through a very difficult court case regarding one of the girls- who then disappeared. Not to mention the daily growing burden of caring for over 100 children. Building and maintaining all the buildings and grounds was getting out of hand. Click Here To Continue »

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What is an Altar? (from the DG blog)

Submitted by Mike on July 30, 2008 - 8:57am
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From Desiring God:

"This is a guest post from a friend of ours who is a missionary doctor working with Muslims. It is a part of his guest series, "Day-to-day Observations from Asia."

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I was studying Psalm 43 with a friend in Urdu the other day. We came to where it says in English, "I will go to the altar of God."

As I read along in Urdu, I did not know the word for "altar," so I asked my friend what it was. He didn't know how to translate the word into English, but he gave the following English description: "It is God's bloody place, where the throats of the animals are slit for sacrifice."

Of course. It's an altar.

Sometimes I think of an altar as the carpeted stairs and dais at the front of the church meetinghouse. But it's not. It is a bloody place—a place of sacrifice and death.

I need to remember that."

Me too.

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