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A Blind Architect Accepts the Gift of His Limitations
Chris Downey had just started a promising architectural job at a successful design firm. A few weeks after he took the job, he noticed that there was ...
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Child Learns About Safety at the Zoo
A grandfather took his daughter and the grandchildren to visit the zoo. As they visited the orangutan exhibit the only thing separating us from these ...
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Olympic Figure Skater Paul Wylie on the Christian Life
At the 1992 Winter Olympic Games in France, American figure skater Paul Wylie won the silver medal. The victory came after a disappointing tenth-place ...
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Missionary Has Sense of Gratitude Rekindled
Franklin and Phileda Nelson went to Burma as missionaries in the 1940s. They served there eight and a half years before the government closed the country ...
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Finding God in Iraq
In 1993, Lt. Col. Gary Morsch joined the Army Reserves as a doctor to care not only for U.S. soldiers, but also for wounded civilians and prisoners of ...
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Soldier Experiences Protective Hand of God
While serving in Iraq, Courtney Birdsey experienced the protective hand of God, forever changing her. She says:
On one of [our] missions, my unit made ...
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Converted Muslim Shows Thanks to Army Doctor
In 1993, Lt. Col. Gary Morsch joined the Army Reserves as a doctor to care not only for U.S. soldiers, but also for wounded civilians and prisoners of ...
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WWII Prisoner of War Converted, Becomes Missionary to Japan
On April 18, 1942, Army Corporal Jacob DeShazer boarded a bomber plane with his pilot, Lieutenant William Farrow, and a co-pilot, navigator, and rear ...
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The Necessity of Adversity
In an on-line article for Leadership journal, John Ortberg discusses how adverse situations are necessary for our spiritual growth. He writes:
Psychologist ...
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Lost Your Faith or Had None to Begin With?
Ian Leitch writes in Life Before Death! A Restored, Regenerated, and Renewed Life:
A businessman asked me if I would speak to his staff, and I readily ...
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