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Haunted by the Prayer of Mother Teresa

July 29th, 200912:50 PM ET

By David Sanford

A while back I had the privilege of joining Suzie Slonaker, Dr. Tony Campolo, Dr. Paul Louis Metzger, Clark Blakeman, and about 20 others for dinner at the Aquariva Restaurant just south of downtown Portland, Oregon. The funny thing about meeting at a hip restaurant on a Monday evening is -- you just about own the place. To say the least, we d...
Eternity: Slow Train Comin' (Part 1)

June 07th, 200904:45 PM ET

By David Sanford

It's not the kind of phone call you get every day. I had the privilege of doing an interview with Alexandra Alter with the Wall Street Journal. Alexandra called me to ask for feature story ideas. I asked her what kind of story ideas. She said she was looking for ideas for feature stories at the intersection of Christian faith and other spheres of l...
Yahoo Atheist Claims God Has Disappeared

April 27th, 200902:02 PM ET

By David Sanford

For 21 more hours, you can reply to a Yahoo atheist named "Jefferson S" by logging onto http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090424080059AAcKGvO. Jefferson's query: "Believers, what would you do if God disappears? I'm atheist but I'm just interested about what you would do if your imaginary god hypothetically poofs out of existence? What ...
Stopping America's Greatest Epidemic

April 04th, 200905:37 PM ET

By David Sanford

"My dear friends, if you know people who have wandered away from God's truth, don't write them off. Go after them. Get them back and you will have rescued precious lives from destruction and prevented an epidemic of wandering away from God" (James 5:19-20, Message). Let's Go After the Millions Who Have Lost Their Faith Q. How can I hel...
The Greatest Temptation: "Losing" Our Faith

March 18th, 200912:44 AM ET

By David Sanford

My father is an atheist, so I still remember having no idea what the Bible was, let alone that my first name appeared in it so many times. As a teenager, however, I started reading God's Word from cover to cover, and before college I had memorized nearly 100 pages of Scripture. I've read through the Bible dozens of times. And I've discovered that ...
Losing Everything

March 03rd, 200907:01 PM ET

By David Sanford

Have you ever lost someone near or dear to you? I lost someone when I was eleven. My dad and mom and brother and two sisters and I were near Snoqualmie Pass, about fifty miles east of Seattle. Waiting in line near the top of mountain slope was a girl about my age with a new red circular saucer. Compared to my black smelly inner tube, it was high ...