By Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins
Here's the 1st within the Biblically encouraged sequence, The Jesus Chronicles, which brings to existence the tale of Jesus, informed within the voices of these who knew and enjoyed him best-the Gospel writers John, Mark, Matthew, and Luke.
In this quantity, readers will become aware of John's tale, an exhilarating account of the lifetime of the fellow who got here to satisfy the prophecies of the previous testomony and to save lots of all of humankind-and the disciple who was once the final eyewitness to Jesus' glory. Readers will event firsthand the production of the Gospel of John in addition to the e-book of Revelation-Scripture that also has profound which means for the area 2,000 years later.
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And can you imagine, in one minute’s silence, the moment when the bloodied Diggers finally reached the razored heights of Gallipoli where the Lone Pine grew… to see that the hazy Turkish horizon was as impossible to reach as a castle in the clouds. And you can imagine, in one minute’s silence, as the Turkish fighters stood strong and straight in their freezing trenches… that the dream they dreamed, of going home, circled like a dove that might soon settle in quietened hearts. In one minute’s silence, you can imagine the Anzacs strengthening their front lines as if to fight through every hour of every day of the bitter Turkish winter… yet in secret they were preparing to leave the cliffs and beaches of Gallipoli seven days before Christmas in 1915.
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But can you imagine the fierce Anzacs and the fighting Turks quietly returning to their trenches after this one day of truce… then firing at each other that afternoon, although they truly knew that the other men were not so much different after all. In one minute’s silence, can you imagine what the Turkish fighters felt when they knew they could hold the high ground … and the rain that lashed them felt like tears of joy. And can you imagine, in one minute’s silence, the moment when the bloodied Diggers finally reached the razored heights of Gallipoli where the Lone Pine grew… to see that the hazy Turkish horizon was as impossible to reach as a castle in the clouds.