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Tribulation's Lessons
As soon as we know our dependence, our own nothingness, we begin, by dying, to live. In this is our only hope: that knowing our nothingness, we come to ...
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When God Says No
A young pastor friend has ... been through the trial of his life. When I saw him recently, he asked me, "What do you do when God doesn't say ...
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God's Richest Gifts
Pain is pain and sorrow is sorrow. It hurts. It limits. It impoverishes. It isolates. It restrains. It works devastation deep within the personality. ...
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Realistic Happiness
Who could speak more realistically about the illusion of a yuppie value system than Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who suffered deprivation of all that money ...
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Pressure Points
The intensity of pressure doesn't matter as much as its location. Does it come between you and God, or does it press you closer to him?
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Faithfulness, not Freedom
One of the deepest sentimentalities of liberalism is the presumption that you can have children without having them suffer for their convictions. People ...
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Against the Current
I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found that I would ...
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Faith on the Death March
Philip Crosby, in his book March Till They Die, tells of a forced march of American and European soldiers in Korea. In November of 1950, the North Koreans ...
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Christ Became One of Us
John Howard Griffin was a white man who believed he could never understand the plight of African-Americans unless he became like one. In 1959, he darkened ...
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Patience in Suffering
He is not truly patient who will suffer only as much as he pleases or from whom he pleases. A truly patient man gives no heed from whom he suffers, whether ...
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