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Social Norms and Lazy Brains
Why are patterns of behavior so powerful for good or bad? As Todd Rose has written in his new book, “our brains are lazy.”
On a neurological ...
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Would Jesus Buy a Gas Station?
Most people don’t take real estate advice from a drug dealer behind a gas station in North Minneapolis. But Larry Cook, bishop of Real Believers ...
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Gang Member Forgives Rival Who Paralyzed Him
Tim Keller, told the following story about a man named Hasheem Garrett, who learned the art of forgiveness. Hashim was a 15-year-old, living with his ...
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God Makes Beautiful People Through Hardships
Many of the world’s greatest souls became their best selves not in spite of but because of their distress. The great hymn writer Cowper wrote hopeful ...
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The Apology His Kids Needed
Author Pete Greig shares the following story in How to Pray: A Simple Guide for Normal People:
I was walking the darkened streets near our house one night, ...
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The Power of Unexpected Forgiveness
Amber Guyger is a former Dallas police officer who has been found guilty of murdering Botham Jean. The case became a national story because of the circumstances ...
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Giving Our Final Days to God
Kim Kuo tells of the 10-year-long battle her late husband, David, had with terminal cancer. David was the former deputy director of the White House Office ...
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The Meaning in the Monotony
Stephanie is a young mother with four children. Her typical day includes waking up at dawn, diapering and feeding one child while clothing another, preparing ...
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Movie Emphasizes Christlike Love for Outcasts
In the movie The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Maggie Smith plays Muriel Donnelly, a cranky British retiree living in a dilapidated hotel in Jaipur, India. ...
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40-Year-Old Injured by ‘Sleeping the Wrong Way’
In his book, What God Has To Say About Our Bodies, Sam Allberry shares the following:
Certain things change when you turn forty:• The world starts ...
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