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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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Boy Doesn’t Trust Ability to Handle Water; Trusts Father to Catch Him

Greg Gilbert writes in What Is the Gospel?:

I started trying to teach my son to swim early on. It was a chore. A year or so old at the time, the little ...


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God at Eye Level

In an article for Christian Standard magazine entitled "Carols for Any Season of Suffering," Matt Proctor reflects on the Incarnation:

My 5-year-old, ...

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D-Day and Christmas Day

In his book The Faith, Chuck Colson has a chapter entitled "The Invasion." In it he describes the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944. ...


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A Father's Risk and a Mother's Love

In a short devotional for Christian Standard magazine, Paul Williams writes about an unusually bumpy flight he once had from Philadelphia to Long Island. ...


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Philip Yancey on the Courageous Work of God

In 1993, [Philip Yancey] read a news report about a "Messiah sighting" in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York. In an article for ...


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Stooping College President Provides Lesson on Incarnation

When pastor and writer Clark Cothern was five years old, he thought college presidents were powerful, frightening beings. That is, until one stooped low ...


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Dying Man Finds Hope in Jesus

In his book Deserted by God?, author and pastor Sinclair Ferguson shares the following story:

The first physician to die of the AIDS virus in the United ...

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God Supernaturally Provides for Couple's Ministry

Years ago, Dave Phillips and his wife, Lynn, had a talk about the callings they felt God was stirring in them. As they discussed what they were most passionate ...


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Petitions That Honor Our King

Travel back 200 years in Christian history to John Newton, the slave-trader-turned-pastor and hymn writer. He would receive almost unbelievable answers ...


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