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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.

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Foreign lands, safe hands

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

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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.

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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?

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"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.

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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?

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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?

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Instantaneous healing: an ultimate goal

James E. Halferty

Many of the healings that took place in New Testament times were instantaneous. Healing can still come suddenly today because the law underlying it hasn't changed at all.

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"Evangelicals and pietists, too, early recognized,...

Jaroslav Pelikan

"Evangelicals and pietists, too, early recognized, sometimes far more explicitly in the mission field than at home, that it was not enough to bring pictures of Jesus, even pictures of Jesus with native features, or words about Jesus, even words about Jesus in the native vernaculars, to the non-Christian world.