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Trapped Ice Climber Remembers His Father's Words
In June of 1992, Jim Davidson and Mike Price climbed Mt. Ranier. On the way down from the summit, the two climbers fell 80 feet through a snow bridge ...
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Spiritual Impact Is Like Dominoes Falling
Rich Stearns, the president of World Vision, calls it the domino theory of spiritual impact. Imagine a long line of dominoes. When one falls, it starts ...
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African Proverb About How Everyone Can Make a Difference
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try spending the night in a closed room with a mosquito. —African proverb
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Surgeon Discusses Our Need for Ongoing Mentoring
Atul Gawande, a distinguished Harvard surgeon and author, argues that everyone needs a coach. After working eight years as a surgeon, he realized that ...
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The Stories We Love Will Shape Our Character
Professor Daniel Taylor notes that as a child Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Christian leader who was executed for resisting the Nazis, was greatly moved by reading ...
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Secular Reporter Praises the Work of Evangelicals
In 2011 New York Times editorialist Nicholas Kristof wrote a column praising the work of many evangelical Christians. Kristof begins by noting that at ...
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Olympic Athlete Shows How to Compete to the Finish Line
As an eight-year-old boy growing up in Hawaii, Brian Clay dreamed of winning one of the most prized gold medals in the Olympic games—the decathlon. ...
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Fred Rogers ("Mr. Rogers") Created Rather Than Complained
In a moving tribute to Fred Rogers, Jonathon Merritt recounts how Rogers chose to reform society through his gentle and persistent influence on a children's ...
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Crowd Pressure Influences “Home Field Advantage”
Sports fans around the world can rely on one fact about their sport: the home team wins more often than the visiting team. A 2011 Sports Illustrated article ...
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We All Need Others to Help Us Succeed
In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell tells the strange story of Christopher Langan, a genius with a staggering IQ of 195. (For some perspective, Einstein's ...
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