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U.S. basketball teams dominated in international competitions—until the 1988 Olympic Games, when the men’s team mustered only a bronze medal instead of the expected gold. But unlike every other country, the American team was comprised of amateur players rather than professionals. The following year the rule was changed, and for the 1992 Olympic...

After a judging scandal in women’s figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics, an investigation was launched into the sport’s judging practices. Independent research found bias in most judges’ judgment, especially toward skaters from their own country. Though instructed to adjudicate the performances of all athletes impartially, judges routinely...

After an experience of healing in his life, Augustine wrote: “At that time you [God] tortured me with a toothache, and when it had grown so severe that I could not speak, the thought entered my heart that I should urge all my own people who were there to pray for me to you, the God of every kind of healing. . . . The moment we knelt down and...

The inspirational poem “Footprints” recounts a person’s conversation with God about his sojourn through life. After noticing that the two sets of footprints that the traveler and the Lord make dwindle to one set at a time of trouble, the traveler asks the Lord why He apparently departed at the sojourner’s hour of greatest need.

On October 25, 1964, the Minnesota Viking’s defensive end Jim Marshall made one of the most infamous plays in NFL history. When San Francisco 49ers quarterback, Billy Kilmer, fumbled the football, Marshall picked up the loose ball and ran for the end zone untouched. But he didn’t score a touchdown: Marshall, becoming disoriented on the field...

Why did God allow evil in the world? Why didn’t He create a universe where everything was good? Question and Answer After each day of creation, God declared that what He created is good. But God didn’t create good. It is God Himself who is Good and Righteous. And God is eternal, existing from before creation. God Himself is the standard.

Often we see in Scripture how God fulfills His promises in surprising ways using unlikely people. Joseph’s journey would transform him and show us the remarkable ways God works to carry out His will.

Joseph was chosen, special, elected, confirmed not just by his father’s favoritism but also by dreams given to him by God. Yet, as scholar Gary Anderson says, “Election is not a matter simply of a set of benefits to be claimed and enjoyed; election involves a cost.” Joseph paid a cost.

Helen Keller became deaf and blind after an illness before she was two years old. Years later, having overcome numerous challenges, she said: “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

After three days in prison, Joseph presented his brothers with their test. One of them must stay behind in prison while the rest bring food back to their households. Then they are to bring the youngest brother, Benjamin, to Egypt to prove that their story was true (v. 20).