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Retired Executive Showed Christ's Love to the Homeless

Christian author Tim Stafford shared a moving story about his mentor Max Dunn, who died at the age of 95:

Max had worked as an executive for a big department ...

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God Lovingly Writes Himself into His Own Story

In a video on YouTube, Pastor Tim Keller says:

Dorothy Sayers wrote a series of detective novels focused her fictional character Lord Peter Wimsey. Sayers' ...


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Dying Father Can't Take His Eyes Off Son

Greg Boyle, author of Tattoos of the Heart, a moving book about his work with gang members in Los Angeles, claims that we all have what he calls our "touchstone" ...


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Navy Sailor Chose to Save Others

On June 17, 2017 the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Fitzgerald collided with a Philippine-flagged container ship 56 miles off the coast of Japan. But one of ...


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North Korean Escapes Internment Camp Through Friend's Sacrifice

In 2005, Shin Dong-hyuk, became the only person to ever escape from a "total-control zone" internment camp in North Korea and live to tell the ...


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The Humbling Journey from a Dignified Life to Fatherhood

Jonathan Last, a writer for the Weekly Standard, claims, that he was once reasonably dignified. "I dressed like a gentleman and luxuriated in the ...


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Child Gives Up Stuffed Moose to Keep Police Officer Safe

At a routine traffic stop last year, 5-year old Mackenzie Brown sacrificially gave up her own stuffed moose toy to a Pennsylvania police officer, hoping ...


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Developmentally Disabled Son Recognizes His Mother in Answer to Prayer

Chicago-area pastor Lee Eclov tells the following story about a woman named Cathy who had a profoundly developmentally disabled son.

When Nicholas was ...

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86-Year-Old Man Raises $400,000 Over 30 Years for a Children's Home

When Johnny Jennings of Ringgold, Georgia was 18, he made a life-changing visit to a Georgia Baptist children's home. Several children ran up to him ...


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'NY Times' Article on the Stories We Tell Ourselves

In a New York Times article titled "The Stories We Tell Ourselves," philosopher Todd May notes that we're often telling stories about ourselves—mainly ...


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