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Baseball Pitcher Schilling Sustained by God

In the first game of the best-of-seven, 2004 American League Championship Series between baseball's New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, Boston's ...


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Tony Campolo Answered Prayer with an Offering

Author Tony Campolo tells how he disembarked from a plane only to discover he was scheduled to speak to a group of women at a World Day of Prayer event ...


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Coach Influenced by Student's E-Mail

Mike Krzyzewski's decision to remain as coach of the Duke University basketball team rather than to become head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers was ...


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Billy Graham's Prayer Changed Flight Patterns

Bobbye Byerly writes in “Miracles Happen When Women Pray”:

I remember the first time my older son Jim and I worked as counselors with the Billy ...


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Prayer Deters Gossip
We never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray!

—Evangelist Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994)


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Pastor's Illness Provides Time for Prayer

Ben Patterson writes:

It came by way of two ruptured lumbar discs. The doctor prescribed six weeks of total rest. The horrible pain prevented me from lying ...


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"Shadowlands": Prayer Changes Us

Shadowlands portrays the joy and pain of the relationship between C. S. Lewis and American writer Joy Gresham. A growing friendship led to a marriage ...


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In a Fire, Pray and Run

The Billy Graham Center is located on the campus of Wheaton College in Illinois. It houses an auditorium, classrooms, and a museum containing priceless ...


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"Glory": A Worshiping Community

The movie Glory dramatizes the true story of the first black regiment to fight for the North during the Civil War. The 54th Regiment from Massachusetts ...


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Biker Delivered from Mouth of Lion

"Once he started clamping down, I remember thinking, This is it. I'm going to die." These were Anne Hjelle's words in an interview with ...


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