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Trapped in an Elevator, Elderly Nun Turns to Prayer
While staying alone in her convent, an 85-year-old Catholic nun got trapped inside a broken elevator for four nights and three days. She tried pushing ...
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How to Be Prepared for an Anaconda Attack
According to pastor and author John Ortberg, a fictitious manual for Peace Corp volunteers headed for South America offers advice on how to handle a chance ...
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In the Wake of a Drive-by Shooting, Neighbors Lose Hope
In his book Hope Is Contagious, pastor and former pro football player Ken Hutcherson shares his personal journey of facing a terminal illness. In the ...
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A Blind Architect Accepts the Gift of His Limitations
Chris Downey had just started a promising architectural job at a successful design firm. A few weeks after he took the job, he noticed that there was ...
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God Uses Suffering to Sandblast Us into His Image
In her book A Place of Healing, Joni Eareckson Tada reflects on how we tend to worry that the cares, troubles, and afflictions of life will wear us down, ...
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The Benefits of "Living Under the Pain"
In his book When Life Is Hard, pastor and author James MacDonald shares a valuable lesson he learned during his days as a basketball player. He writes: ...
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Trials Are Like Bounced Checks
In his book When Life Is Hard, pastor James MacDonald defines a trial as a painful circumstance allowed by God to change one's conduct and character. ...
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Suffering from Cancer, Woman Trusts God's Goodness
In his book If God Is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil, author Randy Alcorn recalls when his friend, writer Ethel Herr, had a double mastectomy. ...
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Celebrating God's Providence Amidst a Devastating Diagnosis
In his book The Many Faces of Evil, author John Feinberg tells the story of when his wife, Pat, was diagnosed with Huntington's Chorea—a genetically-transmitted ...
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God Lifts Up the Brokenhearted
Worship songwriter Brian Doerksen's son, Isaiah, suffers from fragile X syndrome, a genetic condition which results in physical, intellectual, emotional, ...
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