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George Verwer (1938 - 2023). American evangelist and founder of Operation Mobilisation (OM), born in Ramsey, New Jersey, to Dutch immigrant parents. At 14, Dorothea Clapp gave him a Gospel of John and prayed for his conversion, which occurred at 16 during a 1955 Billy Graham rally in New York. As student council president, he distributed 1,000 Gospels, leading 200 classmates to faith. In 1957, while at Maryville College, he and two friends sold possessions to fund a Mexico mission trip, distributing 20,000 Spanish tracts. At Moody Bible Institute, he met Drena Knecht, marrying her in 1960; they had three children. In 1961, after smuggling Bibles into the USSR and being deported, he founded OM in Spain, growing it to 6,100 workers across 110 nations by 2003, with ships like Logos distributing 70 million Scriptures. Verwer authored books like Out of the Comfort Zone, spoke globally, and pioneered short-term missions. He led OM until 2003, then focused on special projects in England. His world-map jacket and inflatable globe symbolized his passion for unreached peoples.
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In this sermon, the speaker addresses the challenges and confusion surrounding the topic of raising children. He acknowledges the influence of culture and the pressure from relatives in shaping our views on parenting. The speaker emphasizes the need for spiritual balance and the importance of instilling biblical principles in the lives of our children. He also highlights the significance of communication and organization within the home, as well as the need for sensitivity towards the needs of our family and marriage partners.
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Let's just continue as we just take some more time to consider some of the other tactics of the enemy in destroying relationships and destroying marriages. We're told in Corinthians, be not ignorant of Satan's devices. I find that so often people are naive about the spiritual warfare, the tactics of the enemy. We read Ephesians 6, principalities, powers, fiery darts, and yet somehow it's a team, not enough privacy. You will have certain negative circumstances. You go into a new situation, and if you keep running, there'll be the danger that you'll get hurt. And if you, here we read these verses, and you don't know a person. The mature Christian is able to handle, we must learn how to handle rejection. They just never, you can get in a movement like O.M. and be just into all time. They may have their day the other day, you're always giving, now you're telling, we read too many books. Yet, you get people who read too many, and they finally come out, they see all, it's amazing how people, Daniel was good, you may not be able to give them everything, that's communion, rigid thinking. A man of God said to me, in his attitude, if you're going to miss the eyes of one of the greatest, there's no small ministry. Pray the Lord, take heed. But you know, if we're going to, we gave out so many tracts, some of the real nitty-gritty, but communicated to one another, between the area leaders, and they, said he always speaks, maybe we would all be dreaming of some other, I'd seen the gospel door, 24 years. He's a human being, he not only has one eye, no doubt someone, he's a God, I believe, we need to beware. We have two very, and I hope that if you're somehow, don't be like that fellow in this whole challenge. It is, we need to learn to claim God's, my hand goes up to my feet, the Russian, we have one hand, we know, that has difficulty, and I discovered it, irritating my wife. She irritates me, there's very few women that want to admit that, and everywhere I'm trying to, seems to be going alright, more and more invitation, I believe we need to deal with, then you can endure a lot. On the other hand, there are men, men I've written here, God will enable you to be faithful, someday in life, and the handling of money, we are, we need, and we need to therefore order, Indians are very, we have in all cultures, we lose, losing passion, my wife is more, we need, listen to, things we must do every month, I don't know, sales, and when communication comes, and I feel, beware, beware, of being too, some of you feel so, in this world, and we must not live in, and you've got to spend, and hope, and you've got to get in, in really make, in the West, we had some, but you know, if you, and we've had to learn, maybe it'll come as a shock, even leaders in Europe, of my American background, a nation, in Europe, they are, and we need a lot of patience, there are two years in India, seems to be in some ways, but there are others, you realize for some, the McDonald's hamburger, sometimes all night, and that those, if you want, you may be, you may be heavy on prayer, but it's, that is all there is of this recording.
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George Verwer (1938 - 2023). American evangelist and founder of Operation Mobilisation (OM), born in Ramsey, New Jersey, to Dutch immigrant parents. At 14, Dorothea Clapp gave him a Gospel of John and prayed for his conversion, which occurred at 16 during a 1955 Billy Graham rally in New York. As student council president, he distributed 1,000 Gospels, leading 200 classmates to faith. In 1957, while at Maryville College, he and two friends sold possessions to fund a Mexico mission trip, distributing 20,000 Spanish tracts. At Moody Bible Institute, he met Drena Knecht, marrying her in 1960; they had three children. In 1961, after smuggling Bibles into the USSR and being deported, he founded OM in Spain, growing it to 6,100 workers across 110 nations by 2003, with ships like Logos distributing 70 million Scriptures. Verwer authored books like Out of the Comfort Zone, spoke globally, and pioneered short-term missions. He led OM until 2003, then focused on special projects in England. His world-map jacket and inflatable globe symbolized his passion for unreached peoples.