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Good Works Inadequate

When a pastor named Michael was still in seminary, he took a required course in "clinical pastoral education." Each seminarian was assigned ...


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Beyond the Bottom Line

Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. ... The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and ...


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Silencing the Foolish

Oh brethren, what abundance of good works are before us, and how few of them do we undertake to do. I know the world expects more of us than we do ourselves, ...


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When You Need Prayer Most

In times when you are sad and troubled, do not give up the good works of prayer and penance which you have been in the habit of doing. For the devil will ...


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Preaching that Works

Words without deeds are empty, but deeds without words are dumb. It is stupid to set them against each other. It is, for example, stupid to say: "The ...


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All For God

The work of a Beethoven, and the work of a charwoman, become spiritual on precisely the same condition, that of being offered to God, of being done humbly ...


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Forgiving Actions

The following story is from an article titled "Your Daffodils are Pretty," (Christianity Today, March 2, 1979, p. 18), in which Josephine Ligon ...


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Great Therapy

Karl Menninger, the [late] psychiatrist, was asked what someone should do who feels on the verge of a nervous breakdown. His advice? "Lock your house, ...


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In His Name

When my daughter Aimee was in nursery school, she'd come home each day with drawings, collages, and other projects. Next to her own name she'd ...


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Boredom Breeds Sin

Many think the Christian life is prosaic, dull, uneventful. It is anything but that! If it appears that way, it is almost certainly a life out of focus ...


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