"Gladiator": The Eternal Consequences of Our Actions

In the movie Gladiator, the Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe) prepares to go to battle against a barbarian Germanic tribe. Just prior ...

Hemingway Found Pleasure Meaningless

Ernest Hemingway, born in 1899, was the epitome of the twentieth-century man. At age 25 he sipped champagne in Paris, and later had well-publicized game ...

Saddam Refuses to Repent

Soon after Saddam Hussein's capture—out of an eight-foot hole that one observer said was filled with rats and mice—he was flown to a secret ...

Military Mortician Sees Faith Sustain the Grieving

American soldiers who do not survive the conflict in Iraq come back to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Since 1955, the Dover mortuary has been the next-to-last ...

"Quo Vadis": The Faith of the Early Christian Martyrs

The epic film Quo Vadis depicts the decadent Roman Empire and the struggles of the early Christians living there in 64 AD. Military commander Marcus Vinicius ...

John Wesley Testified to Faith Even in Death

Witnessing to the holy love of God was always in John Wesley's mind. Even in death.

Here was a man who had preached more than 45,000 sermons, traveled ...

"Braveheart": Not Everyone Experiences True Life

The movie Braveheart tells the story of how a common man named William Wallace (Mel Gibson) leads Scotland to freedom from English rule.

At the end of ...

Eternity Makes Life Worthwhile

Pastor and freelance writer Mark Buchanan tells about a conversation he had with a young philosophy student who was a healthy, good-looking man in his ...

John Grisham's Classmate Prepares for Death

One defining moment in John Grisham's spiritual journey came several years after graduating from Mississippi State University, when one of his classmates ...

"The Two Towers": Desire to Live Courageously

In the film Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Sauron's dark forces begin to overcome peaceful Middle Earth. The hope for Middle Earth lies in the ...