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Sunday Devotions: "Wipe your tears away"

Sunday Devotions: "Wipe your tears away"

Psalm 130, Ezekiel 37, John 11, Romans 8

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At some point in the early 1980s, the leadership of a charismatic Irish Christian group known as Shalom insisted that three of its members make a choice: follow Jesus or continue their band. “These people felt rock and roll was kind of nonsense, and the real job was fixing a broken world,” recalled the band’s singer, who called himself Bono.

As the U2 fr…

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