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Study: People Prefer Electrocution to Quiet Time
We all crave a "little peace and quiet," from time to time, but a new study sheds (ahem) shocking light on how hard it actually is for us to ...
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Kill Weeds by Growing Healthy Grass
A few years ago, marriage and family expert Greg Smalley noticed weeds sprouting up amongst the healthy grass in his yard. Smalley went to a hardware ...
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Death Row Inmate on the Bible's Power
I was visiting on death row in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. I asked one man if he would like to talk, and he said he would. He was a smallish ...
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How One Company Streamlines Complexity
Our lives are filled with gadgets we can't use (automatic sprinklers, GPS devices, fancy blenders), instructions we can't follow (labels on medicine bottles, ...
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Farmers Need to Pause and Sharpen Their Blades
Once, when my wife, Gail, and I were hiking the high meadows of the Swiss Alps, we saw two farmers cutting the high-standing mountain grasses with scythes, ...
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State of the Bible Survey Reveals Statistics about Bible Reading
A 2012 research study commissioned by the American Bible Society and conducted by Barna Research revealed some good news and bad news about Bible reading ...
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God's Word Acts Like a Slow Drip, Not a Big Splash
In her book Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus, Lois Tverberg retells the following story about a famous first century rabbi named Rabbi Akiva:
One day ...
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Starbucks Baristas Told to Slow Down
Starbucks, stung by recent customer complaints, has instructed its baristas to start slowing down as they make drinks. Surveys have revealed that many ...
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Finding God in the Closet
In an article for Today’s Christian Woman, author Jan Struck writes:
As a child, I was captivated by Jesus' words on prayer [in Matthew 6:5–6]. ...
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On Being Accident-Prone
A rabbi taught that experiences of God can never be planned or achieved. "They are spontaneous moments of grace, almost accidental."
His student ...
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