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Atheist-Illusionist Penn Jillette on Christians Who Don't Evangelize

Atheist Penn Jillette is one half of Penn and Teller, a duo that has been headlining Vegas shows for years with comedy and the art of illusion. Penn has ...


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An Undeliverable Mother's Day Card

Don Aycock writes:

A few years ago, I somehow ended up buying two Mother's Day cards. I sent one to my mother, and because I keep a three-year calendar, ...


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C. S. Lewis: "You Have Never Talked to a Mere Mortal"

Remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would strongly be tempted ...


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Close Call Leaves Lewis Smedes Wondering About God

Before giving his life fully to Christ, author Lewis Smedes worked for his uncle's steel company. He writes:

Gigantic cranes hoisted the steel beams ...

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One Escapes from Grave

Phil Callaway writes in Men of Integrity:

One sleepy Sunday afternoon when my son was five-years-old, we drove past a cemetery together. Noticing a large ...


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Death of Friend Helps Philip Yancey See Easter in New Light

Philip Yancey writes in "The Great Reversal”:

After years of urban living had ground down my childhood love of nature, I found it suddenly rekindled ...


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Living Life with Eyes Wide Open

Erwin Raphael McManus writes in The Barbarian Way:

We had an incident while Jet Skiing off the coast of Wellington [during our family vacation to New Zealand]. ...


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Missing the Journey for the Destination

Philip Yancey writes:

We find it difficult to maintain a commitment to both this world and the next, to this life and the next.

A friend of mine uses the ...


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Journalist Tony Snow on the Art of Being Sick

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well. Some cancer patients recover; some don't. But the ordeal of facing your mortality ...


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Girl's Change in Blood Type Deemed Miraculous

In January, 2008, a story made the rounds about a 15-year-old girl in Australia named Demi-Lee Brennan. Brennan became the world's first known transplant ...


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