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High School Football Coach Chooses Team Over Himself

In the competitive world of high school football, there are sometimes abrupt coaching exits like the one that happened at Madison High. But what shocked ...


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How God Used Tragedy to Multiply a Call to Missions

Recently Pastor Ronnie Floyd shared the moving story of Missionary Howard Borden on Fox News:

In the early 1900s, 16-year-old William Whiting Borden graduated ...

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Real Power Comes from Admitting our Limitations

Larry Parsley convincingly writes on the need to recognize our limitations:

Henry Worsley, a former British army commando and then Arctic explorer, was ...

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Who is in the Driver's Seat of Your Life?

In his sermon, John Ortberg compares submission to Jesus to driving a car:

When it was time to take our first child home from the hospital, we put her ...

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Civil War Surrender Brings Life Not Retribution

After a long night and day of marching, Lee and the exhausted Army of Northern Virginia made camp just east of Appomattox Courthouse on April 8. Lieutenant ...


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Finish Life Having Expended All Resources

In his book, Giving It All Away David Green illustrates the goal of life for believers:

Some people act like life is an oversized game of Monopoly, where ...

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When Life Moves From 'Plan A' to 'Plan B'

A special report on This American Life follows the lives of several people currently living what they unequivocally call "Plan B." Host Ira Glass expounds ...


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Burger King's 'Who's the King?' Campaign Draws Criticism

The fast food giant Burger King drew open criticism recently from another king-King Phillipe of Belgium. Set to open its first location in Belgium, Burger ...


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Wine That Used To Bring Freedom Became Bondage

In her blog post titled "So I Quit Drinking," Christian writer Sarah Bessey gives a powerful example of habits that, perhaps not sinful in themselves, ...


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Christian Couple Fears Daughter Will Ruin Her Life as a Missionary

We in the American church are facing a time of testing. Our testing may not look like the testing of what the church in China is undergoing, or the church ...


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