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Key Bible Verse: I am making everything new! (Revelation 21:5b).
Bonus Reading: 1 Corinthians 9-11

One Louisiana observer noted that liquor sales in Shreveport dropped by 40 percent after a local Billy Graham crusade, while the sale of Bibles increased 300 percent. In smaller communities the effects of spiritual change are even more noticeable.

Many have read Mutiny on the Bounty or seen one of the movie versions. Fewer are aware that the book and its two sequels are based on actual events. In 1790, nine mutineers from the Bounty, together with six Tahitian men and twelve Tahitian women, put ashore on Pitcairn Island. One sailor soon began distilling alcohol, and the little colony was plunged into debauchery and vice.

Ten years later, surrounded by native women and a few children, only one man, a sailor named Alexander Smith, survived. In an old chest from the Bounty, Smith one day found a Bible. He began to read it, took its message to heart and then began to teach it to the others. His own life and ultimately the lives of all those in the colony were changed. When the American ship Topaz discovered the group in 1808, Pitcairn had become a prosperous community with no jail, no crime and a lot of contented people.

—Doug McIntosh in Life's Greatest Journey

Adapted from Life's Greatest Journey (Moody Press, Moody Bible Institute, 2000).

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Prayer for the Week

Jesus, I praise you for loving me—please make me a new person in the image of You.

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