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Father Receives Scars While Rescuing His Son during a Tsunami
Wayne Cordeiro tells the story about a church member named Bully, a gentle man who got his nickname from his days of barking orders at construction sites. ...
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The Tuskegee Airmen Display Courageous Faithfulness
George Lucas' 2012 film Red Tails provides a dramatized version of the true events behind a group of World War II soldiers called the Tuskegee Airmen. ...
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The 'Safety First' Approach to Life Isn't Christ-centered
In his book The Colors of Hope, Richard Dahlstrom describes what he calls "the safety first mentality." According to this perspective, "the ...
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The Stories We Love Will Shape Our Character
Professor Daniel Taylor notes that as a child Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Christian leader who was executed for resisting the Nazis, was greatly moved by reading ...
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Wounds Are Part of Battle
In his novel Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful, Alan Paton tells the story of Robert Mansfield, the headmaster of a school in South Africa during the days ...
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Policies Prevent Firefighters from Saving Drowning Man
In June, 2011, the city of Alemeda, California, immediately changed its policies after first responders stood by and watched a man drown in San Francisco ...
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Basketball Player Shares His Shoe with a Teammate
In Malawi, practically any shoe is a luxury. Lilongwe, the capital, is maybe the only African city where I have seen grown men walking down the streets ...
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Navy SEALs Succeed by Focusing on Others
The elite team of Navy SEALs that killed Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011, is still largely shrouded in mystery. But in a recent article in The Wall Street ...
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A Groom Rescues His Bride from Disaster
On Friday, February 25, 2011, Emma Howard and Chris Greenslade were married at Christ the King Church in Christchurch, New Zealand. But getting to the ...
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Bride and Best Man Jump into the Ocean to Save a Life
In November 2010, a wedding party in Glenelg, Australia, was unexpectedly called into action right after the wedding ceremony. While they were posing ...
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