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Conversion Experience

I have been determined in captivity, and still am determined, to convert this experience into something useful and good for other people. I think that's ...


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God's Harvest

There is an old legend that comes from a small town in Germany that for a number of years experienced very poor harvests. Finally those townspeople went ...


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Trials Can't Be Avoided

Several of our people were injured on the ice of last month. I have a feeling that not one of them ventured out his doorway and said to his wife, "Honey, ...


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The Anchor of Faith

The mighty Niagara River plummets some 180 feet at the American and Horseshoe Falls. Before the falls, there are violent, turbulent rapids. Farther upstream, ...


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Preach to the Suffering

Preach to the suffering, and you will never lack a congregation. There is a broken heart in every pew.


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Leaving the Comfort Zone

If we would be enlarged, we must accept all that God sends us to develop and expand our spiritual life. We are so content to abide at the old level that ...


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Jehovah Is Still God

Gladys Aylward, missionary to China more than fifty years ago, was forced to flee when the Japanese invaded Yangcheng. But she could not leave her work ...


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The Trouble with Being a Hero

Being positive is part of being a hero--maybe the hardest part, because if you are a hero you're smart enough to know all the reasons why you should ...


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Truth Is Hard

Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.


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We Do Not Fight Alone

In the book Healing the Masculine Soul, Gordon Dalbey says that when Jesus refers to the Holy Spirit as the Helper, he uses a Greek word, paraclete, that ...


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