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Illustrations: February 1998

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Finding Peace on the Journey
Our Throw-Away Society
Life Without Sacrifices
More than Reaching Goals
Only Humans Can Be Martyrs
All For God
What Are Human Beings Made For?
God's Will, Our Purpose
The Longest Prayer
Can Others Hear Us?
To One Unsatisfied
The Stockholm Syndrome
Self-Love First?
Honey ... Deer!
For Love or Money
The Importance of the Soul
All Are to Be Loved
When We Love, God Acts
Misguided Praise?
Learn to Be Saints
Marriage Doesn't Remedy Lust
A Definition of Lust
Leadership in God's Image
God's Presence--In Us
Powerless Against Sin
The Fragility of Vision
A Thief in the Dark
The Basis of Submission
What Submission Isn't
A Living Sacrifice
Problem or Expense?
How to Achieve Maturity
Developing Christian Maturity
A Moment of Pulpit Panic
The Memory of Jim Bakker
Dangers of Imagination
Sounding the Magical Note
Congregational Vacation
Cowardice, Consensus, and Conscience
Fire Alarms and the Conscience
Guilt Brings Good Results
The Only Animal that Blushes
The Contented Fisherman
A Life of Quiet Confidence
Hold All Things Lightly
The Secret of Joy
God Knows Who We Really Are
Readjusting Our Expectations
Acknowledge God's Grace
Seeking God Through the Pastor
Created by Love
William Carey Converts
Accidental Conversion
Carey's First Indian Convert
Witnessing Should Be Mandatory
Come to the Cross
Life Without God Is Wasted
Selling Your Soul
A Rebel Relents
How to Meet a Christian
A Birth at the Border
The Reason for God's Gift
Be Prepared to Enter
Between the Two of Us...
When Jordan Had a Problem
"No" Is a Complete Sentence
Paying for Silence
Wealth Weats Down Morality
The Hollywood Cocktail
We Are Becoming Like Rome
Speed Kills--The Soul
America's Sad New Day
Lessons from the Ages
God's Richter Scale
America Needs a Revival
Rot Begets Rot
Demanding Total Allegiance
Morality and Politics
From Responsibility to Rights
Freed from Ego
Letting God Be God
With or Without a Mask
Prayer Requires Submission
An Example of Humility
Love Your Wife
Marriage and Natural Reason
Life in the Luther Household
Choosing What Doesn't Make Sense
The Tree of Marriage
How to Serve Your Mate
A Good Father Does It All
A Different Kind of Sensitivity
I Like Being Married to You
Love Requires More than Romance
The Perfect Marriage
It's His Marriage Too
The Laboratory of Marriage
Relying on Each Other
It Takes Two
The Great Game of Marriage
The Core Necessities
Differences Can Be a Bond
The Most Important Thing a Man's Life
Partners Must Become Compatible
More Important than Basketball
Jump in the River
Not Getting It
He's No Jerk
Having a Faithful Wife
Understanding the Important Things
The Truth Sets You Free
The Power of Deeds
The Pride of the Critics
Misplaced Veneration
To Be a Spoke in the Wheel of State
A Purified Church Is No Church
The Purpose of the Church
The Church Should Look Inside
The Church Needs Tools
Warm = Not So Hot
Reading Between the Lines
The Lost Art of Worship
Marriages in But Not of the Church
Worship Comes First
Just One More Consumer Commodity
Along for the Ride
A Valentine's Typo
A Cushy Job
First-Time Preaching
No Donuts?
Worship Needs to Simmer
Big Mistakes
No Spectator Sport
We Need Help to Sing
We Make Up a Single Body
Linked at the Roots
The Importance of Teamwork
Every Instrument Is Necessary
Like Coals in a Fire
The Power of Teamwork
Walking Advertisements
A Church Is Not an Audience
Lessons from a Tavern
Fellowship Is a Double-Edged Sword
Church Growth in China
Convince Them with Joy
Sacrificing Quietly
The Purpose of the Clergy
Not My Job
The Need for Common Sense
The Power of Caring
Religious Faith Is No Secret Vice
Marriage Hazards