Jesus Believers (Christians)

Famous Christians from various fields.

Famous Christians from various fields.
Collage of photos of 49 Christians known figures - Saint Peter, Paul the Apostle, John of Damascus, Saint Helena, Saints Cyril and Methodius, The Romanovs, Sun Yat-sen, Constantine the Great, Charlemagne, Joan of Arc, Thomas Aquinas, Augustine of Hippo, Catherine of Siena, Antoni Gaudi, Michelangelo, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, Maria Theresa, Jean Calvin, Teresa of Ávila, Anton Chekhov, Brothers Grimm, Isaac Newton, Martin Luther, Christopher Columbus, Ludwig van Beethoven, Galileo Galilei, William Shakespeare, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leonardo da Vinci, Thérèse of Lisieux, Gregor Mendel, John D. Rockefeller, Florence Nightingale, Louis Pasteur, Max Planck, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, John F. Kennedy, Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, Pope John Paul II, Leo Tolstoy, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Nelson Mandela, Lionel Messi, Carlos Slim Helú, Marissa Mayer, Novak Djokovic, Gerard Butler, Freida Pinto.

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Oh! Father

Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth's rite of passage?
His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it. He cannot cry out for help to anyone.
Once he survives the night, he is a MAN.

He cannot tell the other boys of this experience, because each lad must come into manhood on his own.
The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely be all around him. Maybe even some human might do him harm. The wind blew the grass and earth, and shook his stump, but he sat stoically, never removing the blindfold. It would be the only way he could become a man.

Finally, after a horrific night the sun appeared and he removed his blindfold.
It was then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump next to him. He had been at watch the entire night, protecting his son from harm.

We, too, are never alone. Even when we don't know it, our Heavenly Father is watching over us, sitting on the stump beside us. When trouble comes, all we have to do is reach out to Him.

Oh! Mother

Three sons left home, went out on their own and prospered. They discussed the gifts they were able to give their elderly mother.
The first said: “I built a big house for our mother.”
The second said: “I sent her a Mercedes with a driver.”
The third said: “You remember how our mother enjoys reading the Bible. Now she can’t see very well. So I sent her a remarkable parrot that recites the entire Bible. It took elders in the church 12 years to teach him. Mama just has to name the chapter and verse and the parrot recites it.”

Soon thereafter, their mother sent out her letters of thanks.
“Milton,” she said, “the house you built is so huge. I live only in one room, but I have to clean the whole house.
“Gerald,” she said, “I am too old to travel. I stay most of the time at home so I rarely use the Mercedes. And that driver is so rude!He’s a pain!”
“But Donald,” she said, “the little chicken you sent was delicious!”