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Illustrations: July 1997

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Hard Assignments
God Uses Troughs
Emotional Distance
Levels of Love
Marriage Maintenance
Parenting the Parents
Parents Have It Rough
Be Doers, Not Hearers
Doubters in the Fold
Train Your Doubt
Hold onto Ideals
Duty and Love
Evangelism at Home and Abroad
Working While We Wait
Only the Beginning ...
Plowing and Sowing
Give What You Don't Need
Watch Where You're Giving
Mother Teresa's Math
The Unselfish Archbishop
To Kiss a Leper
Where Is Your Spirit?
Misplaced Passion
Do What You Can
Where's the Fire?
Wholehearted Prayer
Terrified by the Unknown
God's Sovereignty and Man's Will
Antidote for Envy
Prayer for Understanding
Where Home Is
Overlooking Faults in Marriage
Criterion for Family Health
Battered Wives in the Church
Running in Circles
Sensitive Demands
God Is What Makes Heaven
A Vision of Fatherly Love
After this Manner
All Your Fault
Living Fully
Being Tender
Fear of a Boring Sermon
What Am I Afraid Of?
Hardly Safe
Forces for Good
"Welcome Time" Instructions
Forgetting the Emotions of Others
The Opportunities of Mediation
What Is Conversation?
Communication Postures
A Bitter Root
Leadership Is an Art
Happiness Is Contagious
Forgiving Others
The Penalty of Not Praying
Communing With God
Spurgeon's Divine Co-Laborer
Meeting God in Odd Places
Skepticism Gets in the Way
Trusting When God Is Silent
God through Me
Don't Take God for Granted
Happiness...
Drawn to God
The Sheer Excitement of Knowing God
Anorexic Christians
To Live in God's Presence
Divine Partnership
Change of Heart
The Power of a Hug
What to Ask God For
Unselfishness: Magnet of the Heart
The Two Important Relationships
Bearing Each Other's Burdens
Lord of the Now
Excess Baggage
Buried Alive
When Good Business Is Bad Business
Busyness as Addiction
The Real Bottom Line
Never Be Too Busy for God
A Nation Built on Hope
The Tongue Is ...
Blessed Are the Restrained
The Best Decision-Makers
Whose Will?
To Plan Is to Go
More than a Colony of Ants
A Late Decision
World Movers
Religion and Change
A Social Researcher's Faith
From Morality to "Ethics"
Truth on the Block
What Price Progress?
Not Mere Child's Play
Relationship Evangelism
Life Is Adjustment
The Light of Being
Trusting in the Unreal
Integrity Can't Be Recovered
Love Must Be Blind
How to Fix Communication
The Wrong Medicine
Mixed Messages About Sex
The Danger of Sex
We Are Like the Moon
The Folly of Human Assumptions
It's What's Inside that Counts
God Uses Broken Things
Shortcomings of Television
Faith Blossoms on the Other Side
Peanuts on Inner Peace
The Wisdom of the Cross
Saved by an Unknown Layman
Knowing Your Enemy
Skillful Sailors
Speak with Humility
The Kiss of Encouragement
The New Paganism
The New Village Atheists
The Aftermath of Religious Breakdown
No One to Thank
Unending Gift
Paying the Ultimate Price
A Demonstration of Christ's Love
Example or Sacrifice?
Transfer of Accounts
The Most Beautiful Woman
Beauty of Character
A Pat on the Back
True Intimacy
Women in Tune with God
Opposites Aid Growth
In Sickness or in Health
Put Together by God
What Happens at Baptism
Not Just a Storybook
Understanding the Bible
The Bible Is Alive
No Bible Knowledge