Olympian's Kindness Earns Medal

The rarest medal in the Olympics wasn't created from gold, but a bolt.

The story begins on a cold, winter afternoon in Innsbruck at the 1964 Olympic ...

How Resentment Takes Hold

Resentment is when you let your hurt become hate. Resentment is when you allow what is eating you to eat you up. Resentment is when you poke, stoke, feed, ...

Burnhams Faced Death with Joy

Less than a week before Martin Burnham's abduction by Muslim guerrillas on the Philippine island of Palawan in May 2001, the New Tribes missionary ...

Ignoring the Giver for the Gifts

Bill White writes in Discipleship Journal

When I was a boy, my father would go away twice a year to buy clothing for his clothing store. The minute my ...

Hope and Health

"Hope does not just motivate people to positive action. It actually has healing power."

So says John Ortberg in his book If You Want to Walk ...

Hymn Writer Delivered from Anger

As a young woman, Frances Havergal, author of the hymns, "Take My Life and Let It Be" and "Like a River Glorious," had a very quick ...

Character in the Workplace

In the study series entitled An Ordinary Day with Jesus, John Ortberg and Ruth Haley Barton write, "Doing the right work with the right attitude ...

POW Camp Survivor on Difference Between Optimism and Faith

Jim Collins, the author of Good to Great, interviewed Admiral Jim Stockdale, the highest-ranking officer in the Hanoi Hilton prisoner of war camp during ...

Lifestyle Worth More Than Profit

At the great market in Mexico City, an old native named Pota-lamo had twenty strings of onions hanging for sale.

An American tourist asked him, "How ...

Healed from Anger

In Preaching Today, author and speaker Tony Campolo tells this story:

I was in a church in Oregon not too long ago, and I prayed for a man who had cancer. ...