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He grew up in a Christian home, went to Christian schools, married a Christian wife. Won awards. Scholarships. Became a rising young attorney. Managing partner. Civic leader. No time for God. Empty. Spiritually bankrupt. Then one day, mid-flight, he heard the voice of God. It spoke of pride and busyness and choked relationships. And there, amid material success and spiritual devastation, Kent...

Father took the sledgehammer from my hand. “Oh, Kent,” he said. “Don’t do that.” Then he laughed until tears came, and so did I. We are tempted to fix things—buildings, problems, and maybe people. We are tempted to fix them beyond our competence and, worse, beyond our calling. Peter, for instance: • tried to talk Jesus out of His destiny of suffering (Matthew 16:21–23); • told the tax collectors that Jesus paid the Temple tax without asking Jesus (Matthew 17:24–27); • made a pitch to be useful in
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