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'Epistle to Diognetus' Describes the Lifestyle of Early Christians
An early Christian document known as the Epistle to Diognetus (c. A.D. 120-200) is believed to have been written by a man named Athenagoras. In one important ...
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God Uses Suffering to Sandblast Us into His Image
In her book A Place of Healing, Joni Eareckson Tada reflects on how we tend to worry that the cares, troubles, and afflictions of life will wear us down, ...
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Jesus Suffers with Us in Our Pain
Joe Cumming, a fellow of the Faith and Culture Center at Yale, has a special interest in respectful Christian witness to Muslims, among whom he lived ...
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The Benefits of "Living Under the Pain"
In his book When Life Is Hard, pastor and author James MacDonald shares a valuable lesson he learned during his days as a basketball player. He writes: ...
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Finding True Joy in Christ
Pastor Tim Keller used the following example to show how to find ultimate joy and satisfaction in Christ:
Do you remember when your mother used to say, ...
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Trials Are Like Bounced Checks
In his book When Life Is Hard, pastor James MacDonald defines a trial as a painful circumstance allowed by God to change one's conduct and character. ...
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Suffering from Cancer, Woman Trusts God's Goodness
In his book If God Is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil, author Randy Alcorn recalls when his friend, writer Ethel Herr, had a double mastectomy. ...
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Celebrating God's Providence Amidst a Devastating Diagnosis
In his book The Many Faces of Evil, author John Feinberg tells the story of when his wife, Pat, was diagnosed with Huntington's Chorea—a genetically-transmitted ...
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Actor Tim Allen on Grief
I have no idea what grief should be. You get by grief, you don't get over it.
—Tim Allen, U.S. comedian and actor
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Child Learns About Safety at the Zoo
A grandfather took his daughter and the grandchildren to visit the zoo. As they visited the orangutan exhibit the only thing separating us from these ...
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