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What are we cherishing?

Wayne L. Bart

Surprisingly, what we hold on to most closely may affect our well-being much more than what we eat or how we exercise.

Exercise and the authority of Spirit

Jacqueline Simpson

There's an important question we need to ask about fitness routines and shaping up the physique: Are we being diverted from the real basis of health—spiritual understanding?

God is with us

Kathryn Geraldine Rezek

You know how you can tell God loves you? Because He heals you.

SECOND THOUGHT

From Christianity Today, March 7, 1986

Discouragement is not legitimate

Rowland D. George

"Be born again." The command can seem as impossible to us as it did to Nicodemus, but what makes rebirth possible is divine Love, not some personal ability of our own.

Foreign lands, safe hands

The driver stopped the car under the pale yellow light of a streetlamp.

Teaching children true self-protection

Patricia Palmer Morse

We can help our children develop a spiritual watchfulness — the capacity to hear and obey God's guidance in times of need.

Should I be armed?

Dorothy Locke Conlin

We watch the crime reports, we lock our doors, and many learn self-defense tactics, but do we deal with the fear that would imprison us?

"And there was a great calm"

Isabel F. Bates

We help to solve "the problem of evil" for everyone when we stop participating in it and stand up for God's kingdom here.

Second Thought

From Science 86, April 1986

The spiritual basis for loving others as ourselves

Margaret Coleman Brown

Neighborhood tension mounted when the backyard skateboard rink was installed. How could you love this neighbor?

Putting our trust where it counts—in Spirit

Jane K. Mercereau

What does faith have to do with health? Does Christian healing demand more than faith?