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Jonah's Failure
Jonah's sulking disappointment came from a failure of imagination, a failure of heart. He had no idea what God was doing--the largeness of his love ...
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Running a Ninety-Five-Yard Dash
A friend of mine described a colleague as great at running the "ninety-five-yard dash." That is a distinction I can do without. Lacking the ...
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Falling Down and Getting Up Again
I heard once of an Italian peasant woman who happened to bump into a monk who lived in a monastery high on a hill above her village. Since she bumped ...
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Win or Lose, He Didn't Stay Down
The movie Chariots of Fire was the true story of Eric Liddell, a man who ran for Scotland, then went on to become a missionary. You may recall that he ...
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Lone Climbers Against the Gale
The richer a man's personality, the more there is of him to be tempted. We need not be surprised--as occasionally we are--at the collapse of some ...
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Trying Too Hard
Often we fall short of holiness because we strive so diligently for holiness.
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Jesus' Unique Success
At the end of the life of Jesus, he cried out from the cross, "It is finished." So it must have been a success. But by human standards, his ...
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Real Meaning in the Cross
[Somehow] we never see God in failure, but only in success--a strange attitude for people who have the cross as the center of their faith.
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Failure and Perseverance
When he was seven years old, his family was forced out of their home on a legal technicality, and he had to work to help support them. At age nine, his ...
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