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Miracle Baby Defies the "Facts"
The doctor told Marsha Mark and her husband they needed to accept the fact they would never have biological children.
Amid the discouragement, Marsha clung ...
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Augustine's Mother's Prayer Answered
In his book Legacy of Sovereign Joy, John Piper writes:
At the age of 16 in the year 371, Augustine sneaked away from his mother in Carthage. During the ...
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300 Men Confess Pride
During the Great Awakening, when the Spirit of God revived much of our nation's early faith, Jonathan Edwards was presiding over a massive prayer ...
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"Fiddler on the Roof": Disobeying Our Father
The movie Fiddler on the Roof is about a poor Jewish father's struggle to cling to tradition in an ever-changing world. The main character, Tevye, ...
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First, Call Dad
While kayaking in southern England off the Isle of Wight, Mark Ashton-Smith, a 33-year-old lecturer at Cambridge University, capsized in treacherous waters. ...
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Healed from Anger
In Preaching Today, author and speaker Tony Campolo tells this story:
I was in a church in Oregon not too long ago, and I prayed for a man who had cancer. ...
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Max Lucado's Prayer in Aftermath of Terrorism
At the September 15, 2001, satellite broadcast of "America Prays," author Max Lucado read the following prayer that he wrote in response to ...
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For Christ and His Kingdom
The week before September 11, 2001, America's "Tuesday of Terror," 32-year-old Todd Beamer and his wife, Lisa, had spent a romantic getaway ...
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Neglecting Prayer
In one area of Africa where Christianity began to spread, converts were zealous about daily devotions. They would find their own spot within the wild ...
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Bono on Prayer
U2 singer Bono, in a private meeting in June 2001 on the Hill in Washington, D.C., said:
I do believe that the Kingdom of Heaven is taken by force. God ...
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