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Pessimists and Idealists

Every age suffers its pessimists; every age needs its idealists.


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A Pessimistic Compliment

Donn Moomaw is sort of a larger-than-life person, so he has a lot of larger-than-life stories that are really funny. This is true. When he was preaching ...


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A Pat on the Back Works Best

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.


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Climbing El Capitan with a Little Help

In the summer of 1989, Mark Wellman, a paraplegic, gained national recognition by climbing the sheer granite face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. ...


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All Are to Be Loved

Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low-spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the ...


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America's Sad New Day

This is for me the moment when the new America began: I was at a graduation ceremony. ... It was 1971 or 1972. One by one a stream of black-robed students ...


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We Need Help to Sing

In Witnesses of a Third Way: A Fresh Look at Evangelism, Robert Neff's chapter includes this story about visiting a church service: "It was one ...


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We Make Up a Single Body

There are times when together we discover that we make up a single body, that we belong to each other and that God has called us to be together as a source ...


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Lessons from a Tavern

An old Marine Corps buddy of mine, to my pleasant surprise, came to know Christ after he was discharged. I say surprise because he cursed loudly, fought ...


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Livingstone's Encourager

I think about David Livingstone when he climbed into the pulpit of a little church in Scotland. He'd honed his sermon. He'd prepared it so very well. ...


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