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Stats on Waiting—Where, Who, How Long?
One urban legend holds that we spend three years of our life waiting. It's a great stat, but likely untrue. But here are some real stats about waiting. ...
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When God Makes You Wait
In his book It Happens After Prayer, Pastor H. B. Charles Jr. provides the following helpful illustration of why God often makes us wait for the answer ...
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Study of How Long We'll Wait
When Timex (the watch company) asked people how long they would wait before taking action in a wide variety of situations, researchers discovered that ...
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Thrill-Seeking Activities Require Tedium
You might assume that extreme activities—like traveling through space or climbing Mount Everest—provide constant excitement. Not exactly. ...
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Our Instant Gratification Society Has a Cost
An article in The Boston Globe claims that our "demand for instant results is seeping into every corner of our lives." The need for instant gratification ...
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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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Cathedral Took 632 Years to Complete
Consider the Cologne Cathedral. Begun in 1248, the Gothic jewel was to be the main place of worship for the Holy Roman Emperors. Frederick II, one of ...
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Young Christian Trusts God with Same-Sex Attraction
Author and professor Wesley Hill recounts a time as a young adult when he was struggling with the loneliness of living with same-sex attractions. So he ...
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Room for Doubt Makes Trusting Possible
As long as you have faith, you will have doubts. I sometimes use the following illustration when I'm speaking. I tell the audience that I have a twenty-dollar ...
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The Parable of the Resistance Leader
Is it rational to trust God even when we do not fully understand what he is doing? One of the most illuminating answers was put forward by the Oxford ...
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