Theodosius had a plan. He wanted all the people of his empire to worship the one true God revealed in the Bible. A noble endeavor, for sure. But there was …
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Julian’s Problem
Julian had a problem: Christianity was taking over his empire. But dealing with that problem highlighted an even bigger one: his authority as Emperor wasn’t sufficient to rid his land …
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Extreme Coincidence
Ms. Eloise heard a knock at the door one afternoon, and shuffling her way over to it, opened it to find Kyle, a sweet-but-hyper little boy, standing on her porch …
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Nelson Mandela on Courage
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
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Emo Philips on Forgiveness
“I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked God for forgiveness.”
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Betrayal of a King
In August of 480 BC, a few hundred Spartans led by King Leonidas battled against 150,000 Persian warriors led by King Xerxes. The heavily outnumbered Greeks held their ground, repelled …
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Church Only Makes Me Feel Worse
Ask church people about their image in the community and they’re likely to reference “hospitals for the sick” or “lighthouses for lost.” Let’s face it; that’s how we like to …
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Philip Yancey on the Law
“You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it.”
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Richard Niebuhr on Revival
“The great Christian revolutions come not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when somebody takes radically something that was always there.”
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