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The Only Animal that Blushes

It was your great American wit, Mark Twain, who once said, “Man is the only animal that blushes, and the only animal that needs to.” We are ...


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Shared Fear Makes Friends

Tell people what you're afraid of, and you make them your allies.


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Unstable Decisions

When the fear of God is gone, the decisions of daily life are threatened.


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Hold onto Ideals

People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. Worry, self-doubt, self-distrust, ...


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Terrified by the Unknown

An Arab chief tells a story of a spy who was captured and then sentenced to death by a general in the Persian army. This general had the strange custom ...


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Fear of a Boring Sermon

I fear preaching in such a way that when people hear about God, they'll want only to yawn.


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What Am I Afraid Of?

When I was a child I was, like most children, afraid of things that go bump in the night. But I told myself (for no good reason) that monsters which lie ...


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A Definition of Faith

Faith is a refusal to panic.


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Never Alone

Happy and strong and brave shall we be--able to endure all things, and to do all things--if we believe that every day, every hour, every moment of our ...


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Don't Hug the Mountain

In his book Waiting: Finding Hope Where God Seems Silent (InterVarsity, 1991), Ben Patterson, a man I treasure as a friend, tells a story from his personal ...


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