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Muslim Man Considers the Cost of Following Christ

Haddon Robbinson writes:

Several years ago, I helped lead a tour in Turkey of the churches mentioned in the Book of Revelation. On the last night, we ...


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Christian Leader from Asia Critiques Our View of Suffering

Ajith Fernando, a Christian leader from Sri Lanka who ministers to the urban poor, writes:

The church in each culture has its own special challenges—theological ...

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'The Weather Channel's' "Storm-Tracker" Describes Life's 'Real' Storms

For the past 38 years (as of 2024), Jim Cantore, The Weather Channel's "Storm-tracker," has tracked, chased, run into, and then reported ...


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John Stott Discovers God's Power in His Weakness

John Stott shares the following story from 1958 when he was leading a university outreach in Sydney, Australia. The day before the final meeting, Stott ...


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John Ortberg: God Uses Stress to Help Us Grow

In a Leadership Journal article, John Ortberg argues that sometimes stressful and painful situations can actually help us grow. Ortberg creates the following ...


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Boy with Rare Disease and Rare Gift Declares God's Goodness

Anson Hui is Nineteen-years-old. At the age of three, he was diagnosed with Glycogen Storage Disease (GSD), meaning his body can't break down or store ...


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Farmer Teaches a Lesson on Contentment

In an article for Leadership Weekly, Marshall Shelley wrote:

My wife's father is a Kansas farmer. He's spent a lifetime raising wheat, corn, milo, ...


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God Uses Suffering to Sandblast Us into His Image

In her book A Place of Healing, Joni Eareckson Tada reflects on how we tend to worry that the cares, troubles, and afflictions of life will wear us down, ...


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Comparing the Blessings of Jacob and Esau

If you're familiar with Genesis 36, you know that it's nothing but a list of the descendents of Esau—their names, their wives, their children, ...


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The Benefits of "Living Under the Pain"

In his book When Life Is Hard, pastor and author James MacDonald shares a valuable lesson he learned during his days as a basketball player. He writes: ...


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