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When God Is More Real

God loves us in good times and bad. But he is even more real in our lives when we are having tough times.


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The Advantages of Adversity

We grow and mature spiritually through adversity--not when everything is going smoothly. ... [I]n a time of adversity or trouble, the Christian has the ...


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Seldom Heard Truth

That hardship can actually be a blessing--or "a severe mercy," to recall Sheldon Vanauken's book of that title--is a profoundly Christian ...


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Blessed Veil

God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and if understanding ...


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Commanding Attention

It may take a crucified church to bring a crucified Christ before the eyes of the world.


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Preventing Emergencies

One of the tests of leadership is to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.


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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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Near-Sightedness

What destroys perspective is our penchant to measure ministry on too small a scale. We lose the wide-angle view because we're riveted on the close-up. ...


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Seeing God in Times of Trouble

What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.


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The Definition of Ministry

Ministry is giving when you feel like keeping, praying for others when you need to be prayed for, feeding others when your own soul is hungry, living ...


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