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Too Self-Centered to Do Christ's Will?

If I really wanted only Christ's will (as I claim), then when you remind me in front of a nominating committee that I never get things in on time, ...


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Better for Bending

While lunching at a friend's house, I had to borrow a spoon and have her bend it so it could be inserted in my hand splint and I could feed myself. ...


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Salvation Requires Surrender

Not long ago one of the co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill Wilson, published his correspondence with the great psychiatrist, Carl Jung. He thanks ...


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Where the Line Is

To applaud the will of God, to do the will of God, even to fight for the will of God is not difficult ... until it comes at cross-purposes with our will. ...


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True Contentment, True Praise

One who makes it a rule to be content in every part and accident of life because it comes from God praises God in a much higher manner than one who has ...


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Contentment, the Second-Highest Art

Next to faith this is the highest art--to be content with the calling in which God has placed you. I have not learned it yet.


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Consecrated to God's Will

To what are we to be consecrated? Not to Christian work, but to the will of God, to be and to do whatever he requires.


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The Moment of Crisis

There comes a crisis, a moment when every human soul which enters the kingdom of God has to make its choice of that kingdom in preference to everything ...


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A Higher Order

Tired of struggling with my strong-willed 3-year-old son, Thomas, I looked him in the eye and asked a question I felt sure would bring him in line: "Thomas, ...


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Prepare for the Unexpected

We all tend to prescribe the answers to our prayers. We think that God can come in only one way. But Scripture teaches us that God sometimes answers our ...


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