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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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"Princess Diaries": Reluctant Royalty

The Princess Diaries tells the story of Amelia Thermopolis, a shy, awkward teen whose only goal in life is to be invisible. She tries to get through each ...


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Alan Redpath on Trusting God's Will

There is nothing, —no circumstance, no trouble, no testing, —that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ, right through ...


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9/11 Pentagon Survivor on Her Purpose

Betty Maxfield, who survived the 9/11 tragedy at the Pentagon, said, "I should've been dead. I was, for some reason, saved. My question now is, ...


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Purpose of Suffering

According to author Herbert Carson, God often uses suffering to remind us of the greater goal he has in mind for us. Carson writes:

Slum clearance is not ...

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