Douglas Vandergraph | Faith-Based Messages and Christian Encouragement
Faith-based encouragement, biblical motivation, and Christ-centered messages for real life.
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Read more: FREE BOOK: The Argument for Jesus Christ
The Historical Evidence, the Resurrection, and the Question Every Generation Must Answer The past cannot speak for itself, but sometimes the traces it leaves behind become too persistent to ignore. A Douglas Vandergraph Book Chapter One The Man Who Should Have Disappeared On a spring day in the first century, Roman soldiers carried out another…
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Read more: The Man at the Kitchen Table After Everyone Has Gone to Bed
Chapter 1: When Home Stops Feeling Like the Place That Knows You The house is finally quiet. A cup sits near the edge of the kitchen table, the coffee inside it long gone cold. One light is still on above the stove, and the refrigerator makes that low hum you only notice when everybody else…
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Read more: The Light Already Waiting for You
Chapter 1: Before You Feel Ready for the Day The alarm goes off at 6:10, and for a few seconds you do not move. The room is still dark, the house is quiet, and nothing has happened yet, but your mind is already reaching for everything waiting on the other side of the morning. There…
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Read more: The Name We Place on Our Prayers: What Jesus Hears Before We Say Amen
Chapter 1: The Words We Say When We Have Run Out of Words It is 1:17 in the morning, and the kitchen is the only room in the house with a light on. A phone rests face down beside an unopened envelope, a half-empty glass of water, and a notebook filled with numbers that refuse…
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Read more: The Mercy That Looks in the Mirror First
Chapter 1: The Correction Waiting at the Dinner Table The plates are still warm when the father notices his son looking down at a phone. The boy is not saying anything rude. He is not arguing. He is simply somewhere else, pulled into a glowing screen while the rest of the family sits around the…
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Read more: Does Google Hate Jesus?
Does Google Hate Jesus? A Documented Investigation Into Why My Gospel Library on Blogger Is So Hard to Find An investigation into why Bing indexes my Gospel library on Blogger while Google leaves all of it invisible. The question “Does Google Hate Jesus?” began with a simple, frustrating moment: I knew the article existed because…
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Read more: When Justice Stops at the Edge of Revenge
Chapter 1: The Moment Revenge Begins to Sound Reasonable The kitchen was quiet except for the hum of the refrigerator and the faint buzz of a phone lying faceup on the table. A message had just come through, and one sentence was enough to bring back a week of anger. Maybe you know that kind…
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Read more: The new Cornhusker Assistant Coach
This is a reverent imaginative fictional story featuring Jesus Christ. It is not Scripture, prophecy, or a claim of new revelation. This fictional work is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or approved by the NCAA, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Nebraska Athletics, the Nebraska Cornhuskers, the Big Ten Conference, or any real college-football organization.…
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Read more: Jesus: The new Denver Broncos Assistant Coach
by Douglas Vandergraph This is a reverent imaginative fictional story featuring Jesus Christ. It is not Scripture, prophecy, or a claim of new revelation. This fictional work is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or approved by the NFL, the Denver Broncos, or any real football organization. Chapter One: What the Numbers Could Not…
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Read more: The Courage Behind the Open Hand
Chapter 1: The Jesus We Made Too Small A man sits in his truck after work with both hands locked around the steering wheel. Ten minutes earlier, his supervisor mocked him in front of the whole crew, and when he tried to answer, another coworker laughed and said, “Aren’t Christians supposed to turn the other…
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