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Violating God's Law Is Like Putting Our Hand in Fire

Dorothy Sayers, the mystery writer, was also a devoted Christian. Dorothy Sayers was attempting to explain the moral law of God. She pointed out that ...


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Why One Man Left Christianity to Join the Wiccans

In his book Generation Ex-Christian, about younger Christians leaving Christianity, author Drew Dyck relates one interview with a young man who left Christianity ...


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Children's Bible "Product of Much Pain"

Prolific children's author George Koshy spent three years writing a children's Bible, the first of its kind to be originated in any Indian language. ...


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How the Bible Differs from a Golf Yardage Book

Have you ever watched professional golfers and been awed by their ability to land a shot from two hundred yards away just a few yards from the hole? You ...


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Bible Contradicts Every Culture at Some Point

Many of us read a certain passage of Scripture and say, "That's so regressive, so offensive." But we ought to entertain the idea that maybe ...


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The Green Police

One of the more popular TV ads during the 2010 Super Bowl was sponsored by Audi and takes a poke at the imaginary "green police" out of control. ...


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How Big Is Your God?

In his sermon “Big God, Little God” John Ortberg said:

Many years ago I was walking in Newport Beach, a beach in Southern California, with ...


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Obedience Opens Up Scripture More Than Anything Else

Eugene Peterson writes in “Eat This Book”:

At age 35 I bought running shoes and began enjoying the smooth rhythms of long-distance running. ...


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The Day the Students Went on Strike

Anne Miller, age 22, was a few weeks into her first real teaching job—a summer program teaching at-risk middle schoolers—when she walked into ...


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The Cock Crows the Whole Night Through on Christmas

While writing about the Nativity in his book The Faces of Jesus, author and pastor Frederick Buechner reflects on an early scene in Shakespeare's ...


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