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Patience

As we wait, it sometimes feels like our groom has given us a blender, like fiancé Brian gave his betrothed for their eight-month anniversary…

Generally speaking, we are bad at waiting. Our tech usage is one way we recognize our growing inability to wait for anything, but as…

In her book The Louder Song: Listening for Hope in the Midst of Lament, Aubrey Sampson shares her story of chronic, degenerative illness, the…

A recent study of two thousand British people found that our pursuit of more knowledge has made us impatient. The availability of information at…

Patience is hard work. Just consider your own driving practices—how it’s hard to wait for the slow person with their turn signal on to…

Have you ever seen a good plot twist in a movie? This is when you think the plot is heading one direction, when all…

Isn’t it incredible to think that, in our day, we have access to just about anything and can get just about anything we want…

Imagine a pot of water, full to the brim, boiling on the stove. The water in the pot goes through several stages of heat…

Have you ever been fishing? Patience is a key virtue to good fishermen. It’s hard to be a good fisherman and have “fisherman’s ADD.”…

“Would you go through all the pain of childbirth again, just to be able to have that beautiful child of yours?” For most mothers,…

At the heart of the gospel is love. God so loved the world he sent his Son, Jesus, to die on the cross (John…

When a collegiate athlete is recruited to redshirt for a team, it means that the freshman athlete will have to wait to officially get…

In an editorial for Christianity Today, Richard Clark writes of the tendency for everyone to weigh in on social media after tragedies occur, for…

The video below provides a great definition of dramatic irony—when an audience is in on a secret that the characters in a story don’t…

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