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Study of How Long We'll Wait
When Timex (the watch company) asked people how long they would wait before taking action in a wide variety of situations, researchers discovered that ...
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College President Faces Cancer with Faith
Steve Hayner, the 66-year-old beloved president of Columbia Theological Seminary, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. After tests had revealed that ...
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The Third Stage of Prayer—Giving Thanks
The Minnesota storyteller Kevin Kling was born with a birth defect—his left arm was disabled and much shorter than his right. Then, in his early ...
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Tim Keller on Unanswered Prayer
Tim Keller, reflecting on the passage, "Don't be anxious but make requests to God with thanksgiving", writes that, "We would expect Paul to say first ...
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Pray to Get Lost in God's Love
In the fall of 2000, doctors diagnosed Pastor Ed Dobson with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), an incurable and fatal disease. The doctors gave him two to five ...
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When God Answers Our Prayers with One Word—Repent
How does God respond to a Christian who asks for guidance? It all depends. There's a big difference between a Christian who has "irregular, discouraging ...
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Search for "Prodigal" Father Reveals God's Presence
In a sermon titled "The Hopes and Fears of All the Years," Craig Barnes says that the message of Christmas is not that we always get what we want, but ...
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Child's School Trips Provide a Lesson on Prayer
I grew up in Newfoundland, Canada. In 1972, our seventh grade French class decided to take a special weekend trip to the French Islands just off our southern ...
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Max Lucado's Daughter Asks Him to Sell Snow-Cones
When my oldest daughter was about six years old, she and I were having a discussion about my work. It seems she wasn't too happy with my chosen profession. ...
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The True Intention of Prayer
In The Higher Happiness, Ralph W. Sockman describes the true intention of prayer: "We use prayer as a boatman uses a boat hook: to pull the boat ...
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