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Where Would We Be Without Pain?

Pain can serve a definite purpose in our lives. Dr. Paul Brand of Carville, Louisiana, one of the world's foremost experts on leprosy, describes how ...


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Saved by Skinned Knees

My 2-year-old and I were walking along a busy street when suddenly she broke loose of my grasp and ran ahead of me. I rounded the corner after her, only ...


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Suffering Is a Certainty

We must be made perfect by sufferings. If we do not meet them in our younger days, we shall certainly have them in the decline of life.


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Sun Alone Creates a Desert

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.


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When God Says No

A young pastor friend has ... been through the trial of his life. When I saw him recently, he asked me, "What do you do when God doesn't say ...


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Real Learning

Education is a bringing out of what is there and giving it the power of expression, not packing in what does not belong; and spiritual education means ...


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Toil Builds Character

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.


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Walk, Don't Run

God's Word often refers to the Christian experience as a walk, seldom as a run, and never as a mad dash.


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God Will Not Be Put Off

The Word of God is demanding. It demands a stretch of time in our day--even though it be a very modest one--in which it is our only companion. ... God ...


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The Law in Our Language

John Wycliffe's respect for the authority of Scripture drove him to promote an English translation of the Bible. The church bitterly opposed it: "By ...


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