Today's Christian articles

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Endings ... and beginnings.(Note from the Editor)
November 1, 2008... In 1963 one of Ken Taylor's dreams came true. The man who gave us The Living Bible wanted to offer true stories of faith and hope in a digest, so he founded this magazine and called it The Christian Reader. (His story is told on page 30.) In 1991, The Christian Reader became part of the...

From the pages.(Quick Takes)(Excerpt)
November 1, 2008... Excerpted from Faith and Doubt by John Ortberg. Copyright [C] 2008 by John Ortberg. Used by permission of Zondervan. One year, in the small cul-de-sac where my family lived in Illinois, three husbands in the four houses around us had heart attacks while still in their forties. ...

At the author's table.(Quick Takes)(Stephen Simpson)(Interview)
November 1, 2008... "When I discovered that a relationship with Christ wasn't always warm and fuzzy, I became frightened," recalls Stephen Simpson in Assaulted by Joy (Zondervan). "Then I got mad. Then I stopped caring." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Though he became a Christian at the age of seven, painful...

4 books to watch for.(Quick Takes)
November 1, 2008... [O.sub.2] by Richard Dahlstrom (Harvest House). In this fresh perspective on the faith, Dahlstrom compares the process to respiration, showing how Christians can inhale life-giving strength through prayer, study, solitude, and silence and exhale generosity, hospitality, and service to the...

"His name is Wonderful": he is the mighty King, master of everything, His name is Wonderful, Jesus my Lord.(Story Behind the Song)(Audrey Mieir)(Reprint)
November 1, 2008... Audrey Mieir was born in Pennsylvania in 1916. She began writing songs at the age of 16, and became widely known as the composer of many wellknown gospel hymns. It was at a special service at her California church on Christmas Day 1959 that Mieir was inspired to write her most famous...