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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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How to Be a Friend

Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain--to be there even when we have nothing to offer except our presence ...


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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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