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Missionary Learns Valuable Lesson from African Pastor
Helen Roseveare, a medical missionary in Africa, was the only doctor in a large hospital. There were constant interruptions and shortages, and she was ...
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Man Raises Millions for Families in Need by Sleeping in His Tent
People call him "Shoe Bob," but his real name is Bob Fisher. He owns a small shoe repair shop tucked in a corner of a little strip mall in Wayzata, ...
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Valuing the Contributions of Those Around You
Improvisation is the willingness to live within the bounds of the past and yet search for the future at the same time. Improvisation is the desire to ...
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Living Life with Eyes Wide Open
Erwin Raphael McManus writes in The Barbarian Way:
We had an incident while Jet Skiing off the coast of Wellington [during our family vacation to New Zealand]. ...
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The Difficulty of Christian Submission
[In an article for Decision magazine], Samuel Kamaleson illustrates [the difficulty of submission] through a Christian folk story from South India. There ...
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Pitifully Small Donations of the Richest Christians in History
In his Books & Culture article "A Lot of Lattés," Ron Sider reviews Passing the Plate: Why American Christians Don't Give Away ...
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The Robynson Family's Christmas Tradition
We all have various Christmas traditions. Few of us probably have a tradition quite like the Robynson family's. In his book Crazy Love, Francis Chan ...
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NFL Quarterback Kurt Warner's Family Tradition
Kurt Warner, the two-time NFL MVP quarterback of the Arizona Cardinals, started a family tradition he calls The Restaurant Game. The night before he heads ...
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Eddie Would Go!
In his book Passed Through Fire, pastor Rick Bundschuh tells the story of Hawaiian surfer Eddie Aikau:
If you ever visit Hawaii, you may notice a plethora ...
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Giving Extravagantly in Light of God's Extravagant Gift
Mike Erre writes in Men of Integrity:
My wife and I refinanced our house and cashed out what was (for us) a large sum of money. I spent several weeks ...
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