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Gabriel Announces John’s Birth
Date: October 24, 2019
Passage: Luke 1:8–17
Luke takes us back to the time before John the Baptist was conceived, and introduces us to his parents, Zacharias and Elizabeth who were unable to have children. Zacharias was a priest, and he was serving for about a two week period in the Temple (vv. 8- 11). King David …
IllustrationJohn Paton – A Missionary in the New Hebrides
John Paton was a missionary in the New Hebrides Islands. One night hostile natives surrounded the mission station, intent on burning out the Patons and killing them. Paton and his wife prayed during that terror-filled night that God would deliver them. When daylight came they …