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Pollyanna's 'Glad Game' Versus True Hope

The 1960 film Pollyanna starring Hayley Mills, based on the novel by Eleanor H. Porter, written in 1913 was released. The lead character's full ...


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Apollo 13 Blackout vs. 400 Years of Silence

To illustrate the 400-years of silence prior to the coming of Jesus, Del Tackett compares it to the Apollo 13 incident. On the evening of April 13, when ...


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Jesus' Shadow or Real Presence?

John Piper gave the following illustration to children and their parents, to explain what Christmas is:

Kids, suppose you and your mom get separated in ...

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The Secret to Effective Tightrope Walking

There's a special word for those tightrope walkers who display amazing feats of balance on a high wire—they're called funambulists. In his book ...


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Sailboat on the Ocean Loses It's Keel and Ballast

Michael Plant was experienced and passionate about sailing the ocean's wild winds. But his third trip around the world was different. He designed and ...


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'The Hunger Games': Hope Is Dangerous

In the film The Hunger Games, President Snow rules over a futuristic society called Panem. Every year the people of Panem are forced to participate in ...


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People Play the Lotto despite Ridiculous Odds

Forty-three states, along with the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands, run lotteries [as of January 2014] …. According ...


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Man Miraculously Rescued from Capsized Ship

On May 26, 2013 at 4:30 A.M. the Jascon 4, one of three tugboats towing an oil freighter off the coast of Nigeria, started to sink. Harrison Odjegba Okene, ...


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Memorized Psalm Helps 56 Years Later

In the fall of 1956, I began my final year at the Stony Brook School, then a boys' college preparatory school in New York. Among the required courses ...


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A Native American Prophecy of Christmas

In 1740 the Skitswish, a small Native American tribe in northern Idaho, had a prophet/chief named Circling Raven of whom it was said he could communicate ...


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