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The Paradox of Love

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no more hurt, but only more love.


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Giving Involves Sacrifice

Those who give much without sacrifice are reckoned as having given little.


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Riptide in Alaska

In Man in the Mirror, Patrick Morley tells of a group of fishermen who landed in a secluded bay in Alaska and had a great day fishing for salmon. But ...


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A Sacrifice at Auschwitz

In A Book of Saints, Anne Gordon tells the story of Father Maximilian Kolbe, who was a prisoner at Auschwitz in August 1941. A prisoner escaped from the ...


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God in the Line of Fire

In the 1993 hit film In the Line of Fire, Clint Eastwood played Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan. Horrigan had protected the life of the President ...


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Taking the Sting

A boy and his father were driving down a country road on a beautiful spring afternoon, when a bumblebee flew in the car window. The little boy, who was ...


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Saved from Ourselves

Christ died to save us, not from suffering, but from ourselves; not from injustice, far less from justice, but from being unjust. He died that we might ...


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Real Commitment

The motto of every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be "Devoted for life."


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Discipleship Means Joy

If we answer the call to discipleship, where will it lead us? What decisions and partings will it demand? To answer this question we shall have to go ...


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Faith Without Passion

Very few of us [Christians] could say with Paul's conviction, "For me to live is Christ." If we experienced this as a transforming joy, ...


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