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Shining in the Darkness: Philippians Simply Explained is unavailable, but you can change that!

Chained Paul might be, this joyful prisoner of the Lord never wrote more warmly nor more wisely than in this letter to his friends in Philippi. Yet the apostle is not blind to faults, even of loyal brethren for whom he has a special affection. Evidently there was some dissension in this lively Christian community, due to personal jealousies and animosities. Unfortunately, the same can be just as...

In 1949 a young American college student called Jim Eliot was preparing to go out on the mission-field. At that time he wrote these words: ‘He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.’ Some seven years later he was sitting with four friends deep in the Ecuadorian rain forest. They had gone to this remote spot in an attempt to make contact with a very secretive tribe called the Auca Indians. On Sunday morning,
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