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Jehovah Is Still God

Gladys Aylward, missionary to China more than fifty years ago, was forced to flee when the Japanese invaded Yangcheng. But she could not leave her work ...


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The Trouble with Being a Hero

Being positive is part of being a hero--maybe the hardest part, because if you are a hero you're smart enough to know all the reasons why you should ...


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Truth Is Hard

Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.


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We Do Not Fight Alone

In the book Healing the Masculine Soul, Gordon Dalbey says that when Jesus refers to the Holy Spirit as the Helper, he uses a Greek word, paraclete, that ...


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How to Be a Friend

Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain--to be there even when we have nothing to offer except our presence ...


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When God Is More Real

God loves us in good times and bad. But he is even more real in our lives when we are having tough times.


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The Advantages of Adversity

We grow and mature spiritually through adversity--not when everything is going smoothly. ... [I]n a time of adversity or trouble, the Christian has the ...


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Seldom Heard Truth

That hardship can actually be a blessing--or "a severe mercy," to recall Sheldon Vanauken's book of that title--is a profoundly Christian ...


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Blessed Veil

God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and if understanding ...


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Commanding Attention

It may take a crucified church to bring a crucified Christ before the eyes of the world.


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