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What Good Is Pain?

Sometimes it is spiritual pain which makes us aware that we need a transfusion. Just as physical pain is a marvel for the human body, an early warning ...


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Where Would We Be Without Pain?

Pain can serve a definite purpose in our lives. Dr. Paul Brand of Carville, Louisiana, one of the world's foremost experts on leprosy, describes how ...


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Saved by Skinned Knees

My 2-year-old and I were walking along a busy street when suddenly she broke loose of my grasp and ran ahead of me. I rounded the corner after her, only ...


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A Problem Becomes a Solution

I stood dismayed in the kitchen of our newly acquired country home--I had accidentally submerged my left foot in a tray of fresh wall paint. A few minutes ...


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Suffering Is a Certainty

We must be made perfect by sufferings. If we do not meet them in our younger days, we shall certainly have them in the decline of life.


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Sun Alone Creates a Desert

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.


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Tribulation's Lessons

As soon as we know our dependence, our own nothingness, we begin, by dying, to live. In this is our only hope: that knowing our nothingness, we come to ...


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When God Says No

A young pastor friend has ... been through the trial of his life. When I saw him recently, he asked me, "What do you do when God doesn't say ...


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God's Richest Gifts

Pain is pain and sorrow is sorrow. It hurts. It limits. It impoverishes. It isolates. It restrains. It works devastation deep within the personality. ...


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Realistic Happiness

Who could speak more realistically about the illusion of a yuppie value system than Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who suffered deprivation of all that money ...


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