Frank Duracher
Meeting People
at the Crossroads
of Faith & Life
Editor-in-Chief:
Allen Satterlee
Content Development
Editor:
Frank Duracher
Editorial Director:
Jeff McDonald
Art Director:
Roger O. Selvage Jr.
W W W . S A I N T E R S E C T I O N . O R G
A Blood Donor
Saved My Life!
I
t's absolutely true! My life was spared because
someone loved me enough to intervene on my
behalf. Scripture records the warning of God that
without the shedding of blood there can be no forgiveness
[of sin] (Hebrews 9:22).
That means someone had to pay for my redemption.
Unfortunately, blood had to be spilt. It's not "cool" to talk
about things like that these days, but it remains a fact.
Someone had to give His life for mine.
And that's why Christmas is so very important.
While it's sweet to see a newborn babe asleep on a bed
of hay, it's horrible to think of that baby growing up and at
age 33 willingly off ering Himself up for me...for you!
So when you hear the bells on Christmas Day later this
month, you'll hopefully rejoice at the old, old news that
always seems brand new.
We can live forever, because the Son of God was born!
M
ajor Cecil Brown was a product of the western North
Carolina mountains. Salvation Army history will
forever credit her with "opening the work" among the
very people she called family and neighbors in that
remote region.
So poor were the people of Appalachia 100 years ago, they hardly
noticed the Great Depression that crippled economies around the world
in the 1930s.
While growing up, Cecil and her family were too poor to afford
presents. And so as an adult, armed with a lieutenant's commission
and a conditional mandate from her divisional commander, Cecil
Brown set out to lift her people to a "Smoky Mountain High"--leading
them to a saving knowledge of Jesus as well as improving their status
as citizens of the Twentieth Century.
Every Christmas, then, was infi nitely more special than those
before--once Cecil was in a position to do something. What she did--
and how she did it--is our
iRony this Christmas season.
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