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The Warsaw Children’s Choir (1946)

Contributed by Dr. Bradford Reaves on Dec 4, 2025

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The Warsaw Children’s Choir (1946) Now we shift scenes again. It was Christmas Eve, 1946. World War II had ended, but the city of Warsaw lay in ruins—bombed-out buildings, shattered streets, burned timbers. The Philharmonic gathered a children’s choir made up almost entirely of orphans—children who ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:33-40

Tags: Warsaw, Christmas, Wwii, O Come All Ye Faithful, Children Singing (view more) (view less)

Denomination: Brethren
The Ice Storm Train (1917)

Contributed by Dr. Bradford Reaves on Dec 4, 2025

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In December 1917, a massive ice storm paralyzed New England. A passenger train froze on the tracks outside Hartford, leaving hundreds stranded in subzero temperatures. The passengers had no food, no heat, and no way home on Christmas Eve. Then something remarkable happened. Families living along ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:33-40

Tags: Christmas, Helping Others, Incarnation, Humanity, Trains (view more) (view less)

Denomination: Brethren
"In The Beginning…” From 240,000 Miles Away (Apollo 8, 1968)

Contributed by Dr. Bradford Reaves on Dec 4, 2025

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On Christmas Eve, 1968, the world gathered around their televisions at one of the most turbulent times in American history. The Vietnam War raged. Cities burned from riots. Hearts were heavy with fear and division. But on that night, three astronauts—Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders—became ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:33-40, Genesis 1:1

Tags: Genesis, Creation, Moon, Astronauts, Christmas (view more) (view less)

Denomination: Brethren
Dying For Treasure

Contributed by Dr. Bradford Reaves on Aug 11, 2023

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Have you ever heard about a man named Forrest Fenn? Forrest Fenn was a pilot in the US Air Force, earning the rank of Major and awarded the Silver Star for his sermon in Vietnam, which flew 328 combat missions within a year. After his service to his country, he ran an art gallery where he made his ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:19-24

Tags: Money, Treasure

Denomination: Brethren
Cipa (Congenital Insensitivity To Pain With Anhydrosis)

Contributed by Dr. Bradford Reaves on Mar 10, 2022

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Not far from my home lives a young woman who was born with a very rare disease called CIPA, congenital insensitivity to pain with anhydrosis. Imagine having a body that looks normal and acts normally, except for one thing: You cannot feel physical pain. That sounds as if it would be a blessing. But ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 2:1-10

Tags: Pain, Prayer

Denomination: Brethren
It All Happened On A Subway

Contributed by Dr. Bradford Reaves on Mar 10, 2022

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Marcel Sternberger was a methodical man of nearly 50, with bushy white hair, guileless brown eyes, and the bouncing enthusiasm of a czardas dancer of his native Hungary. He always took the 9:09 Long Island Railroad train from his suburban home to Woodside, N.Y.., where he caught a subway into the ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 2:10

Tags: Grace, Mercy, Salvation, Chance, Divine Appointments (view more) (view less)

Denomination: Brethren
Bee The Body Of Christ

Contributed by Dr. Bradford Reaves on Jan 14, 2022

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My dad has bees. Today I went to his house and he showed me all of the honey he had gotten from the hives. He took the lid off of a 5 gallon bucket full of honey and on top of the honey there were 3 little bees, struggling. They were covered in sticky honey and drowning. I asked him if we could ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:27, Galatians 6:2

Tags: Family, Body Of Christ, Helping, Caring, Bees, Love, Church (view more) (view less)

Denomination: Brethren
Dna And Stained Glass

Contributed by Dr. Bradford Reaves on Sep 2, 2021

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Dr. Francis Collins’s credentials are impeccable: he is a physical chemist, a medical geneticist, and the former head of the Human Genome Project. He is also, by his own account, living proof that there is no conflict between science and religion.” “In 2006, he published ‘The Language of God,’ in ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 1:27

Tags: Creation, Dna

Denomination: Brethren

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