Are you sure?
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Are we pursuing real success?
I can point to so many individuals—writers, musicians, artists, sportsmen and women, business people, political leaders—whose successes inspire me. Each has lived a life of devotion to their field. And many “heroes” serve in fields less visible yet no less vital: education, religion, policing, the military, civil rights, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and so on.
Yet regardless of the visible good we’re achieving, or regret not achieving, we accomplish a great deal each day if our experience includes spiritual growth—the willingness to rise from a material to a spiritual sense of existence. To faithfully follow the Bible’s counsel to “put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness” (Ephesians 4:24), is in itself a successful life of growing in our understanding and proof of what we are as God’s, Spirit’s, creation.

September 13, 2021 issue
View IssueEditorial
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Are we pursuing real success?
Tony Lobl
Keeping Watch
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Loving the Tenth Commandment
Jennifer Foster
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The prayer of loving divinely
Jay Thatcher
Poetry
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Spirit’s bestowal
Suzanne Goewert
Turning Points in Spiritual Growth
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Waking up in a cornfield
Tim Booth
Teens
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God really was with me
Fredrick Higgins
Healings
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Hearing restored
Brigitte Fessel-Voigt
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Burn healed
Syd Dunton
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Healed of coronavirus
Barbara Yocum
Bible Lens
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Matter
September 13–19, 2021
From our readers
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Letters & Conversations
Greg Sandford, Tressa Lee