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Christ's Courageous Example

During World War I, a British commander was preparing to lead his soldiers back to battle. They'd been on furlough, and it was a cold, rainy, muddy ...


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Francis the Peace-Maker

Peace-loving Francis of Assisi joined the Fifth Crusade in Egypt, though he did not fight. He risked his life crossing enemy lines to preach to Muslim ...


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Christians Justify Violence

The majority of Christians over 2,000 years have believed that violence may be justified under certain circumstances.


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A Flag of Rags

In the final years of our imprisonment, the North Vietnamese moved us from small cells with one or two prisoners to large rooms with as many as 30-40 ...


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Revival During the Civil War

Major revivals broke out in the Civil War armies. In the Union Army, between 100,000 and 200,000 soldiers were converted; among Confederate forces, approximately ...


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Compassion from the Enemy

It was 1944, and Bert Frizen was an infantryman on the front lines in Europe. American forces had advanced in the face of intermittent shelling and small-arms ...


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Forgotten War

When religion is in a state of quiet and prosperity ... the soldiers of the church militant will then tend to forget they are at war. Their ardor slackens ...


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Knowing Your Enemy

Aqaba in 1917 seemed impregnable. Any enemy vessel approaching the port would have to face the battery of huge naval guns above the town. Behind Aqaba ...


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Paying the Ultimate Price

Paul Harvey tells a story about Lieutenant Commander Edward Henry "Butch" O'Hare, the Navy's number-one ace in the Second World War ...


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An Early Opinion on the Atomic Bomb

That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert on explosives.


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