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A Parable about How Our 'Help' Can Hurt Others
An African Christian leader shared the following story about his experience with receiving "help" from well-meaning American mission partners: ...
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Man Must Love a Single Mom's Son
Imagine a single mom. Her eleven-year-old loves baseball. Personally, she doesn't care about baseball, but because her son loves it, she hasn't ...
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Marine Air Station Welcomes 'the Sound of Freedom'
The U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point is located in Havelock, North Carolina, close to some of the Atlantic's most beautiful beaches. But ...
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God's Work through Immigrants in Our Neighborhood
In his book Strangers Next Door, J.D. Payne argues that through immigration God has been moving the nations of the world right into our neighborhoods. ...
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Chinese Church Growth Based on Prayer
In 1949, George Roy and Elizabeth Wood, an American missionary couple serving in northwest China and Tibet, were forced to leave the area. A local leader ...
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Doctor Lectures on Surgery as His Patient Dies
There's a scene in Herman Melville's (author of Moby Dick) novel White Jacket that focuses on the ship's chief surgeon, Cadwallader Cuticle, ...
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Gandalf Sends Bilbo on an Unwanted Adventure
At the beginning of The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins enjoys a comfortable and predictable life in his home in the Shire. But when the mysterious Gandalf drops ...
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American Patriots Risk Their Homes for Victory
In October of 1781, General Cornwallis marched his British troops into Yorktown. The patriots to the south had wreaked havoc on his redcoat army, and ...
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A Military Historian Defines Leadership
Leadership is the capacity to inspire and motivate; to persuade people willingly to endure hardships, usually prolonged, and incur dangers, usually acute, ...
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Missionary's Efforts Bear Fruit 150 Years Later
The American missionary Adoniram Judson arrived in Burma, or Myanmar, in 1812, and died there thirty-eight years later in 1850. During that time, he suffered ...
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