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Lauryn Hill on God's Provision

Grammy-winning pop diva Lauryn Hill says:

We have an enemy inside of us who tries to convince us that there is something out there that is better than ...

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"A Beautiful Mind": Choosing Not to Indulge Certain Thoughts

The movie A Beautiful Mind traces the life of genius mathematician and Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash, Jr. (played by Russell Crowe), who is tortured ...


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God Provides but Expects our Effort

The air war over Bosnia in the late 1990s made famous the escape of Scott O'Grady. The downed American flier evaded capture for days in enemy territory ...


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St. Thomas Aquinas's Devotion

In St. Thomas Aquinas, G. K. Chesterton describes the early life of the brilliant medieval theologian. Thomas was born into a wealthy, aristocratic family, ...


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We Know the Enemy's Plans

The Battle of Antietam in 1862 lasted for 12 hours and ranks as the bloodiest day of the Civil War, with 10,000 Confederate casualties and even more on ...


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Violence God Approves

You must violently resist the tides of the world. Violently give up all that holds you back from God. Violently turn your will over to God to do His will ...


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The Path to Sexual Sin

A common path to sexual sin is the notion that feelings are not only all-important but also totally uncontrollable; they just happen to you.


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Good Soldier

He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish and prefer that which is truly ...


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Tough Choices

On July 20, 1993, while cutting down oaks in a Pennsylvania forest, Don Wyman got his leg pinned beneath a fallen tree. No one could hear his yells for ...


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God Always Provides Escape

Escape

Our train rolled into Kansas City at 1 a.m. Dim lights came on to help the new passengers find seats. Many of us who had been riding home through ...


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