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A Day Wasted?

In The Effective Father, Gordon MacDonald wrote: "It is said of Boswell, the famous biographer of Samuel Johnson, that he often referred to a special ...


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Going the Wrong Direction

In my country, England, we play a game called "bowls." When you're too old to run around the block or play tennis or racquetball, you can ...


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Garbling the Lord's Prayer

My Sunday school class of youngsters had some problems repeating the Lord's Prayer, but they didn't lack in imagination. One child prayed, "Our ...


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An Answer to Prayer

It was a cold winter day and the entire family was snug in our warm house. Everyone that is, except for our six-year-old Jonathan, who insisted on playing ...


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Do the Right Thing

A little honesty paid handsome dividends for Herbert Tarvin, 11, who drew praise for returning eighty-five cents that he picked up after an armored car ...


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Holiday Hand-Me-Downs

The Sunday before Christmas, my Sunday school class brought me gifts. One little girl presented her package and innocently said, "Here, someone gave this ...


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Giving Fifty Percent

A young family regularly sits behind my parents during morning worship. Every Sunday when the offering is taken, the father gives each of his children ...


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Surprised by the Answer

We were in need of passage money to return to our work in Switzerland. In faith, we set a date that the children and I began "praying towards." We contemplated ...


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Deformed by Sin

In The Whisper Test, Mary Ann Bird writes: I grew up knowing I was different, and I hated it. I was born with a cleft palate, and when I started school, ...


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Daddy's Baby's Come Home

On a short flight from Tucson to Phoenix, I noticed a young woman with her baby. They were both dressed in white pinafores. The mother was smiling, and ...


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