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Deliverance from Life's Frustrations

The way out of life's frustrations is found not by resenting our limitation but by accepting the place of frustration as the sphere of God's purpose. ...


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Medical Pioneer Gives Credit to God

Katherine Hsu pioneered tuberculosis-prevention strategies now replicated around the world.

Born in 1914 in Fuzhou, South China, Hsu counts herself fortunate ...


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Soldier Hears and Later Finds God

Roy Edgemon writes in The Ways of God:

While in Okinawa, Japan, I would end each radio ministry broadcast with an invitation to call in questions and requests. ...


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Trusting God When Miracles Don't Come

In Holding On to Hope, Nancy Guthrie writes:

We had Hope for 199 days. We loved her. We enjoyed her richly and shared her with everyone we could. We held ...

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Author R. C. Sproul's Unusual Conversion

Author and theologian R. C. Sproul recounts his conversion:

I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not ...

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Madonna on Materialism

In an interview, Madonna, the self-proclaimed "material girl," commented on her material wealth:

Money is like everything. Money is like sex. ...

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NFL Runner Wonders Why God Moved Him

National Football League running back Sherman Smith, the "Sherman Tank," stood six feet four inches tall and packed 225 pounds of solid muscle. ...


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Man Witnesses amid Terror

Al Braca worked as a corporate bond trader. His office was on the 105th floor of Tower One in the World Trade Center. A week after the tower was hit and ...


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High School Football Player Scores Touchdown of the Year

Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly called it the "Play of the Year." A local newspaper called it "the touchdown heard around the ...


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God Turns Dobson's Failure into Success

Concerned about the disintegration of the home and the increased divorce rate, James Dobson, at the time a little-known psychologist of a southern California ...


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