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Cannot Choose Which Cross

God can never make me wine if I object to the fingers he uses to crush me. If God would only crush me with his own fingers, and say, “Now, my son, ...


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Marriage: Great Way to Die

In Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir, author D. J. Waldie observes that the biggest drawback to living alone is having nobody to forgive. It is not that you ...


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Love's Motive

Whenever people expend themselves, they want results. If they lay down life, they want someone's life raised up. If they empty themselves, they want ...


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Charity Begins at Home

Without love, almsgiving is no more important an action than brushing your hair or washing your hands, and the Pharisees had just as elaborate a ritual ...


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Losing to Win

The meaning of sacrifice is the deliberate giving of the best I have to God that He may make it His and mine for ever: if I cling to it, I lose it, and ...


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"I Knew You'd Come"

The story is told of a military patrol reconnoitering enemy territory. Taut as piano strings, the little group of men probed the shadowy images of uncharted ...


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Generosity Requires Self-Sacrifice

He who gives what he would readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.


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Real Faith Is Surrender

Faith is not a contract. Faith is surrender.


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You Have to Take Risks

In order to be true to what I read in the Scripture, I have to take risks.


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Beyond Me-ism

We are designed with a great capacity for God; and sin and our individuality are the things that keep us from getting at God. God delivers us from sin: ...


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