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dial-a-prayer, dial-a-devotion, dial-a-sermon

August 19, 2013June 4, 2013 by Tim
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The modern craze for futuristic prefixes such as “i” (as in iPhone, iMovie, etc.) and “e” (as in e-mail, e-filing, eHarmony) goes back farther than you might think. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, the church was wild about the prefix “dial-a.” As in: dial-a-prayer, dial-a-sermon, dial-a-devotion!

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