Suffering & Pain

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I wanted to live in Dorchester to serve a struggling neighborhood. But no one from my church had ever visited, and a num...

We prayed and prayed for his healing. He was young, healthy, married with children, and actively serving the Lord as a c...

I remember staring at my phone, willing myself to pick it up, but my arm felt like lead. I needed to raise support to ke...

Shivering, burning, sweating, moaning. The fever has run through your entire household, and the only reason you're alive...

A drunk driver crashed into his car. As Jerry Sittser tried to keep his mother, wife, and daughter from dying, he was al...

I dropped the weights and collapsed onto the weight bench. I wasn't physically tired, but an intrusive thought had shut...

In a training video for pastors, the megachurch leader Josh Howerton advises them to set aside time to answer the questi...

Christianity Today once reported that at a major missions conference, 8,000 people signed commitment cards indicating a...

“One of the girls in our small group came to me after maybe a year or so of listening to people and she was like, ‘I fee...

Christianity Today tells the story of a pastor who drives two members of his church to work every day. They're legal imm...

Elisabeth Scott Stam, February 22, 1906 / "For me to live is Christ and to die is gain." Philippians 1:21. It's a short...

In Barracks 28 of the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Betsie ten Boom coughed on a bed stuffed with fleas and lice. Corr...

I crumpled into a corner of the hospital hallway. The harsh fluorescent lights illuminated the terror of birth. My wife...

As I walked through Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham, I looked up and saw The Foot Soldier. Ronald McDowell's statue show...

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