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How Big Is Your God?

In his sermon “Big God, Little God” John Ortberg said:

Many years ago I was walking in Newport Beach, a beach in Southern California, with ...


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Perfect Fear Casting Out Love

Perfect love may cast out fear, but fear is remarkably potent in casting out love.

—P. D. James, English author (1920- )


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Persecuted Pastor: "Jesus Made Me Ready for Battle Again"

Josef Tson was a Romanian pastor and educator who suffered terribly under the Communists before the fall of the Iron Curtain. In a sermon he once preached, ...


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Pastor Makes Tough Decision on Risky Missions Trip

In his book The Jesus Revolution, pastor and author Leith Anderson shares a story about the tension that sometimes comes between obeying God and obeying ...


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A Lesson About Spiritual Warfare from Alexander the Great

We can actually learn a lot about some of Satan's strategies in spiritual warfare by studying the military strategies of some of the warriors of old. ...


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Recording Artist Learns Valuable Lesson in Mexico

Carolyn Arends in an article, "Hiding What They Seek":

People come to the Christian faith via many different highways, but the eventual crossroad ...


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Church Member Risks His Life for Pastor

"My pastor needed help."

—Keith Melton, of the First Baptist Church of Maryville, Illinois, explaining why he immediately charged the gunman who ...


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The Kind of Courage Hollywood Ignores

Mike Erre writes in “When Guys Need God”:

The problem with looking to Hollywood for the image of masculinity (even those true-to-life stories ...


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Graduate Student Risks Reputation for One Small Step of Faith

Courtney Ellis writes:

When I attended graduate school for English, there were many occasions when my fellow students openly ridiculed the name of Christ. ...


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Dragons Stalk the Unknown

Most people are afraid of the unknown. Those things we have never seen or experienced can seem overwhelming.

On the old maps, back before the world was ...


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