Category: Trials

  • Adultery – Far Worse Than You Might Think

    It is safe to say that hundreds of millions of people around the world know of someone who has either committed adultery or has experienced the trauma caused by a spouse’s marital unfaithfulness. Sadly, adultery has become part of the fabric of life in countries and cultures across the globe. In spite of its prevalence,…

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  • The Illusion of Hope in Psychotherapy

    Excerpted from Counseling Must Be Based Solely on the Bible God’s Word is changeless and remains as powerful and applicable to life today as it was for those living thousands of years ago. On the other hand, secular psychology and psychotherapy are relatively new approaches to address matters of life and conduct. Even though the…

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  • Sorrows That Last a Lifetime

    The possibility of sorrow lasting a lifetime may seem impossible, especially for followers of Christ. Sorrow, however, is part of life; and there are precipitating situations in which sorrow might fade from its initial intensity but never fully go away. For example: Other situations could be listed, but it should be evident that some circumstances…

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  • Surf’s Up

    Biblical Perspective in Everyday Life Biblical truth can be presented in a variety of ways . . . such as group Bible studies, sermons, and personal study of God’s Word. This presentation is an example of the freshness that characterizes biblical truth when it wraps itself around the various aspects of personal experiences. Sit back…

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  • When and How to Leave a Church…or Not

    This article has been difficult to complete … not because of the subject but because of the timing of its release. It seemed that whenever the article was considered for publication, fellow believers—in different localities and in various churches—would announce they were leaving a church to join another. As a result, work on this article…

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  • Adoniram Judson

    Endurance Personified By Paul Borthwick In 1993, under the auspices of the World Evangelical Fellowship and the Myanmar Evangelical Fellowship, my wife and I traveled to Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma) to speak to youth and youth workers. To connect our trip with missions history, we decided to re-read the biography of Adoniram Judson, pioneer to…

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