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Blessing Boomerang
I grew up in a rough Boston housing project called Columbia Point in a family of nine children. Although I'd been a hardworking student, paying for ...
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Estee Lauder's Example of Waiting
Shortly after starting her perfume business, Estee Lauder realized she had to persuade a cosmetics buyer to place her products in many stores throughout ...
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Hungry for God?
Speaker Mike Benson tells how one night, as his family was finishing dinner, his eight-year-old daughter left six green beans on her plate. She normally ...
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Praying for Others
In one Leadership cartoon, a man at a church meeting says to himself, Oh great! Here comes Bob. I told him I'd pray for him! "Dear God, help ...
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Jesus' Unanswered Prayer
When Jesus prayed to the one who could save him from death, he did not get that salvation; he got instead the salvation of the world.
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Depending on the Disabled
One day [childrens television's] Mister Rogers was making a trip to California and decided to pay a visit to a teenager with cerebral palsy. "At ...
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God in the Storm
You think it is spiritually important to have free time to be alone with God; but I tell you, you will really get closer to him by embracing the Cross ...
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Tornado Insurance
"We said a prayer that God would watch over us."
—Sherri Conley, of Oklahoma, telling the Daily Oklahoman how she, her husband, and two ...
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Waiting Like a Trapeze Flyer
Not long before his death, Henri Nouwen wrote a book called Sabbatical Journeys. He writes about some friends of his who were trapeze artists, called ...
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Jewish Family Finds the Messiah
Stan Telchin, a successful Jewish businessman, felt betrayed when his 21-year-old daughter, Judy, called home from college to say, "I believe Jesus ...
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