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Strengthened by a Cross

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. Heaven prepares good men with crosses.


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Failure and Perseverance

When he was seven years old, his family was forced out of their home on a legal technicality, and he had to work to help support them. At age nine, his ...


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Broken Things

God uses broken things. Broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the ...


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Expect Obstacles

Opposition is a fact: the Christian who is not conscious of being opposed had better watch himself for he is in danger.


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Against the Wind

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.


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The Madness of Christian Leadership

Christian leadership is both a meaningful and maddening vocation.


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Yet I Will Praise

Margaret Sangster Phippen wrote that in the mid 1950s her father, British minister W. E. Sangster, began to notice some uneasiness in his throat and a ...


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Don't Get Too Comfortable

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.


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Delight out of Disaster

I once read about farmers in southern Alabama who were accustomed to planting one crop every year--cotton. They would plow as much ground as they could ...


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Faith after the Struggle

Faith like Job's cannot be shaken because it is the result of having been shaken.


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