Is your pain God’s plan?

Author Jay Kesler told a story of his first car accident. He had just gotten his driver’s license and was driving too close to the middle of a narrow road.

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Finding answers to the “whys” of life

The Boston Globe newspaper carries a daily column dedicated to answering questions from its readers. Some years ago, the paper listed the top ten unanswerable questions it had received.

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What kind of legacy will you leave?

A man named Milt Rood worked for years in Spokane, Washington as a car salesman. He was also very active with the Union Gospel Mission, working to help better the lives of juvenile delinquents.

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The key to truly knowing God

The famous baseball player Ted Williams put up some amazing statistics in his days. In the 40s and 50s, he was known as a “natural hitter” because…

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Going Hard After God

A common theme in literature, movies, and in fact, any tool of story-telling, is “good versus evil.” When I was growing up in the 50’s and 60’s, I watched more westerns and war movies than I care to count. In all of these, there was a battle or war between the good and the bad: those who fought for righteousness and truth, and those who were profoundly immoral and wicked.

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The power of confidence in your testimony

The famous author Robert Louis Stevenson tells of a storm that caught a ship off a rocky coast and threatened to drive the ship into the rocks, which would mean certain destruction.

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What it really means to grow in the Word

While studying in the Holy Land, a seminary professor met a man who claimed to have memorized the entire Old Testament in Hebrew.

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How you can support persecuted believers today

In 1915, a Russian Armenian Christian was reading his Bible when he was beheaded for his faith

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Showing external evidence of your internal change

The renowned Quaker philosopher Rufus Jones was once speaking to a crowd about the importance of having a radiant countenance.

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Making sense of chaos in your life

In 1980, Les Henson was a 6-foot, 6-inch forward on the Virginia Tech basketball team.

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