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A Son Learns About Faith Watching His Father Die

Writer David Briggs offers a moving meditation on what he learned from his father's example. David's father was an ordinary man who lived an ordinary ...


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The Cross Was the Epitaph of Jesus

Epitaphs are a powerful thing. What is said about us when we die is a window into how we lived our lives and what we think was most important. Ludolph ...


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5,000-Year-Old Lunch Box Emerges from the Ice

There is a bit of good news about global warming, at least according to archeologists. As the glaciers recede, they are releasing some of the human artifacts ...


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John Mellancamp Needs Time Before Death

At the age of 65, musician John Mellencamp reflected on "what's left" for him in life. Mellencamp said, "I intend to make my ending ...


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Old Trees don't Get Taller, They Bulk Up like a Bodybuilder

Old trees may not grow taller every year, but they do keep bulking up—like a human bodybuilder. That's the summary of recent research into the life ...


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Top CEO Dies Clutching Magazine that Featured Him

Colman Mockler is considered today as the model of an effective CEO. A Harvard Business School graduate with an MBA, he had gone to work for Gillette ...


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Clint Eastwood Admits His Regrets

In an interview with Esquire, the actor and film director Clint Eastwood and his son Scott both agreed that they never look back on life. When Esquire ...


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God Uses the Young but Saves His Best Work for the Mature

Os Guinness argues that God can use and has used people in their youth, but God also has accomplished some of his best work through people more advanced ...


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Parents' Gift to Their Son: Two Message Stones

I grew up in a China that had been ravaged by two centuries of European and American adventuring, and then by World War II and a brutal civil war. We ...


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NFL Star Reflects on Near-Death Injury

Ricardo Lockette rose up the ranks of pro football and eventually helped the Seattle Seahawks win the Super Bowl in 2014. But on November 1, 2015, the ...


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