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ODB: Focused on God

My coworker made a quick call to discuss an issue. She asked how I was doing, and I admitted that I had a really painful sinus infection, and the medicine wasn’t working.
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ODB: In God’s Presence

In 1692, Brother Lawrence’s work The Practice of the Presence of God was first published.
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ODB: Standing Strong in Christ

Recently, my mom gave me a play-by-play of a surprising confrontation she saw on a live webcam feed from a watering hole in Africa.
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ODB: Sent with Care

I recently learned that the name “CARE” package came from the acronym for “Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe,” a group that sent boxes of food to help Europeans displaced during World War II.
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ODB: Hope in Faith

Kristin’s son had died from cancer when he was just seven. Now, three years later, her older son was diagnosed with a terminal illness.
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ODB: Mercy and Our Mess

During Sunday school, my patience with three-year-old Peter was wearing thin.
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ODB: Be Like Jesus

The tall passenger seemed to unfold as he stood up in the aisle of the small regional jet.
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ODB: Within God’s Reach

Sentenced to fifty years in a maximum-security prison, a sixteen-year-old girl sat in solitary confinement.
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ODB: Survivors by God’s Mercy

Charles Joughin was a sailor from the young age of eleven. He served as a baker on a number of ships and, in 1912, got hired on to a cruise ship sailing out of Southampton, England.
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ODB: A Longing Fulfilled

Blaise Pascal famously said there’s an “infinite abyss” inside us that only an infinite God can fill.
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ODB: Divine Interruptions

Up early, Sara wrote her to-do list for the day. But she was interrupted with a request from a young, struggling family.
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ODB: Our Birthright in Christ

The owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks offered a Chicago sports-talk host $100,000 to legally change his name to “Dallas Maverick.”
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ODB: From Every Nation

London is a cosmopolitan city, with people from many nations living side by side.
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ODB: Faith and False Accusation

Driven by powerful winds, the fire raged for days. The historian Tacitus describes a chaotic scene filled with screams and citizens running for their lives.
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