Paul Coxall

Saved by God's grace

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Modern media: “They’re just a clump of cells”

Life Magazine, 1965:

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The balance challenge

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Germany’s gold medalist in shot put at Paris Olympics, Yemisi Ogunleye sings and glorifies Jesus in her press conference.

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Sweet testimony :

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@runningchannel Brilliant video. Emotional and inspiring.

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@runningchannel Aftershokz Wireless Bluetooth Headphones. Can hear surround noise along with podcasts👍

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@TeamEdwardsI000 @mk_marathon Great work @TeamEdwardsI000 Just started my 16-week plan for @mk_marathon Hope to see you there and witness a stupendous achievement.

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MUST WATCH!

The UN and the rank hypocrisy and anti-Israel bias magnificently exposed in just 48 seconds by the Israeli representative addressing the UNSC just now

Thus is everything you need to know about the UN…..

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Peace On Earth! https://t.co/2DEXARZm68

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@TeamEdwardsI000 @RunThroughUK @mk_marathon Great work. Looking forward to being @mk_marathon with you. What a day that will be !!

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Pleasure to be interviewed by Dan Bilton for his podcast. Here’s a summary of my life - Conversion, Cancer, and Call - Always Fighting https://t.co/wvbIdcWJaa via @acast

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@TeamEdwardsI000 @PhoenixRunning2 @mk_marathon Looking forward to my 2nd Marathon finish at @mk_marathon 2024, which will be your 1000th 😮. Inspirational. Hope you keep injury free.

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Whilst we are saddened at such a beautiful tree being needlessly and illegally axed, we grieve more over the 600 children who every day in our country are aborted with the full support of the law.

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Church history is littered with bad marriages.

John Wesley—founder of the Methodist movement and one of the three key preachers in the First Great Awakening (along with George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards)—had a notoriously bad marriage that was full of fights and fits. He and his wife, Molly, relentlessly insulted each other, and their arguments went from private to public.

John thought Molly was a rebellious woman who should quietly wait for and on him. Molly was tired of being home alone while he was gone for months at a time on preaching trips. Once, in 1758, when John was preparing to go on another preaching tour, his parting words to her were: “I hope I shall see your wicked face no more.”

Not quite pillow talk, Mr. Wesley.

John and Molly separated again and again, until she finally left once and for all. He wrote in his journal, “Finally, she left for good. I did not forsake her, I did not dismiss her, I will not recall her.”

This is sad indeed. A man who is considered by many to be the organizing force behind the First Great Awakening could not organize his life in such away as to prioritize his wife and could not bring a great awakening to his dead marriage.

Wesley pathetically tried to excuse his long absences and cold demeanor behind a ministry mantra: “for the sake of the cause.”

According to Robert Southey, in his book The Life of John Wesley, Wesley compared his own ministry impact with the impact of his wife’s life with these cut-to-the-heart words, “…of what importance is your character to mankind? If you were buried just now, or if you had never lived, what loss would it be to the cause of God.”

Ouch.

Tragically, Wesley is not the only man of God to have a marriage ruled by the Devil. And this is not true just of church history—it’s true all across the world in many churches today.

It was true in my marriage early on.

For the first several years of my marriage, I was busy preaching at my church on Sunday and leading Dare 2 Share the rest of the week. When I wasn’t on the road or in the office, I came home to collapse on the couch and watch television. I, like Wesley, subconsciously excused my lameness in loving my wife and leading my marriage on busyness with “the greater cause” of Christ.

Then one night, it all blew up in my face when our argument spilled over into public, literally during a Bible study. I’ll spare you the gory details, but I ended up in the fetal position in the middle of the Bible study circle, crying unconsolably for 30 minutes. Why? Because I knew she was right and I was wrong.

I was a jerk! I hadn’t been paying attention to her and her needs. I had been pulling a Wesley, “for the sake of the cause.” I wanted my wife Debbie to just suck it up so I could go on the road and save lost souls.

It was my soul that needed to be saved, not from the flames of Hell, but from the ice-coldness of a marriage on life-support.

That moment marked a turnaround point—not an immediate, full 180, but more like a Wall Street graph headed in the right direction. Yes, there have been—and continue to be—ups and downs. But my wife is the love of my life, and we’ve now been co-laboring side-by-side for, as of yesterday, 33 years!

Now we’re together “for the sake of the cause.”

Busyness from saving souls and leading ministries is not a good excuse for a bad marriage. Instead, our marriages should be a shining example of the Gospel, full of forgiveness, reconciliation and on-going transformation because of the example of Christ on the cross and power that comes through His Spirit.

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@JeffreyPWiesner If I had to suggest 1 it would be 'Biblical Eldership' by Alexander Strauch. An excellent book for any elder.