INSIGHTS MAGAZINE CANADA
Jesus: The Greatest Life of All
by Chuck Swindoll
Back in the mid-1990s I began writing a series of books on some of the great lives in the Bible. I wanted to recapture the vibrancy and vitality many of these women and men exhibited and learn lessons from the ones that didn’t—lessons our modern ears so often miss! You might remember the first eight volumes in the series, books about David, Moses, Esther, Paul, and others. God taught me so much as I studied. It was a thrill and a challenge to dig into God’s Word and to capture on paper the truths related to these very real lives.
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Charles Atlas and the Secret Formula
by Phil Callaway
I was a skinny kid. How skinny, you ask? So skinny I had only one vertical stripe on my pajamas. I was the only kid on our block who could stand under power lines during rain storms and stay dry. And my thinness did not go unnoticed by the other children. “Skinny skinny two by four, slide him under the kitchen door,” bullies would chant. I didn’t think it was that funny and once my big brother arrived, I told them so. I also told them things about their ancestry. Things they didn’t know.
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Morality is Not the Point
by David Carl
Morality is not the point. Now stay with me. If you don’t agree now, you may when I’m finished. For a while now I’ve been asking the elementary-age kids I know, “What do you think God wants most from us?” Most of the time the answers are something like, “God wants us to be good,” or, “God wants us to pray a lot.” I was even pleased to get a, “God wants us to help people.” These were the kind of answers I expected—but they are wrong. When I ask, “What does God want most from us?” The words I hope to hear are, “He wants us to love Him.” That’s the point.
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