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Hard Assignments

We do not want suffering; we want success. We identify not with those who are low and hurt but with those who are high and healthy. We don't like ...


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God Uses Troughs

It is a fact of Christian experience that life is a series of troughs and peaks. In his efforts to get permanent possession of a soul, God relies on the ...


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Peace Through the Storm

It is a popular notion that the warmest part of this island must be in the center, away from the cold waters and high gales of the inconstant sea. But ...


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Man's Chief End

To ask that God's love should be content with us as we are is to ask that God should cease to be God: because He is what He is, His love must, in ...


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Tea Parties or Riots?

Where are our wounds? Is there nothing to fight for? How complacent are we about the world's causes, both great and small? Have we accepted with weak ...


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Living Beyond Perfectionism

Lived fully, the experience of illness can free you from the curse of perfectionism that makes happiness conditional on having everything just right.


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Pass Beneath the Difficulties

We are too little to be able always to rise above difficulties. Well, then, let us pass beneath them quite simply.


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The Penalty of Work

The average layman has the idea that his vocation is his penalty.


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A Little Job

Not too long ago I was babysitting one of our three, 3-year-old grandchildren. In our family, we had twins and a single birth all within 24 hours. We ...


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Christians Must Play Hurt

Someone asked Roger Staubach, former quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, about football injuries. "How do you keep on keeping on if you're playing ...


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