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Grisham Novel Describes Conversion
In The Testament, novelist John Grisham paints a portrait of one man's surrender to God's will. Nate O'Reilly is a disgraced corporate attorney ...
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"The Man Who Captured Eichmann": Rationalizing Evil
The Man Who Captured Eichmann, with Robert Duvall as the notorious Nazi Adolf Eichmann, is based on the memoirs of Israeli operative Peter Malkin. It ...
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Murderer Carla Faye Tucker Confesses Christ
Carla Faye Tucker in 1983 helped to kill two people with a pickaxe, and she was so animalistic in her behavior that she laughed while she did it. She ...
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Karl Menninger on Sin of Omission
Sin is not just a commission of an act; it may also be the omission of an act. Dr. Karl Menninger writes in his book Whatever Became of Sin?:
If a dozen ...
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No Middle Ground in Middle Earth
Behind The Lord of the Rings epic trilogy is The Silmarillion, another of Tolkien's works, which explains the formation of Middle Earth and depicts ...
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Sin Blinds Us from Seeing Sin
When I was a teenager, I met a man who had this rather disturbing way of pointing out things that I found downright uncomfortable. In one discussion, ...
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"Lord of the Rings": Overcoming Adam in Us
In The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Christian author J. R. R. Tolkien portrays the classic conflict between good and evil set in a mythical ...
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When Tempted, Think of Christ's Sacrifice
Author and pastor John Piper says:
We must not give a sexual image or impulse more than five seconds before we mount a violent counterattack with the mind. ...
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NASCAR Crew Chief Decides Against Cheating
It was a small adjustment that could make a big difference. Sure, it was against NASCAR rules, but almost everyone else was doing it. So crew chief Tim ...
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C. S. Lewis Gives Picture of Sanctification
In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C. S. Lewis tells of how a young boy named Eustace becomes a dragon—a very unhappy dragon at that. Eustace steals ...
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