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Man Deals with His Anger

Leroy Eims writes:

As a new Christian, I was challenged to apply my weekly Bible study personally. I was working through Colossians. The Holy Spirit caught ...


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Confronting the Addiction of Harmful Words

Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, author of Words That Hurt, Words That Heal, has lectured throughout this country on the powerful, and often negative, impact of ...


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Displaced Ruler a Prisoner of His Own Appetite

Thomas Costain's book The Three Edwards describes the life of Raynald III, a 14th-century duke in what is now Belgium. Grossly overweight, Raynald ...


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Man Contemplates Killing His Daughter's Rapist

In the fall of 2002, Rick Garmon's daughter, Katie, became a victim of date rape. She was 18-years-old at the time and a freshman in college. Too ...


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Children Who Can Delay Gratification Become More Successful

Around 1970, Walter Mischel launched a classic experiment. He left a succession of 4-year-olds in a room with a bell and a marshmallow. If they rang the ...


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Laura Bush on Abstinence

During her 2006 trip to West Africa, First Lady Laura Bush said:

"I'm always a little bit irritated when I hear the criticism of abstinence, because ...


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Augustine on Abstinence

Total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.


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Augustine on Lust

Seeing women when you go out is not forbidden, but it is sinful to desire them or to wish them to desire you, for it is not by tough or passionate feeling ...


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Sex Addict Admits Her Misery

Human beings long for intimacy, and sex is one of God's good gifts for a man and a woman to enjoy within the bounds of marriage. We have a tendency, ...


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A Fatal Loss of Control

On October 31, 1999, a full airplane took off from JFK International Airport, New York, on a routine flight to Cairo, Egypt. The final report of the National ...


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