Volume 44, Number 10
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Amsterdam 2000 ends with a message from Billy Graham, a promise by 10,000 evangelists, and a unifying framework for worldwide evangelism.
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Even Christian diet experts rarely talk about it anymore. But the early monks did, and for good reason.
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Grace blossoms in affliction, triumph arises out of failure, hope abounds amidst struggle—and on it goes.
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Just because Promise Keepers no longer fills stadiums doesn't mean men's ministry is dead. Far from it.
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How Scientology remade Clearwater, Florida—and what local Christians learned in the process.
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A U.S. congressman implores American churches to start agitating for persecuted Christians worldwide
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By Steve Scott and Karen L. Mulder