The Difference Faith Makes

The Christian life is going to God. In going to God, Christians travel the same ground that everyone else walks on, breathe the same air, drink the same ...

Beethoven Writes Great Music Though Deaf

Widely regarded as the greatest composer ever, Beethoven began losing his hearing at age 31 and was completely deaf 16 years later.

As he became more and ...

Young Man Relies on Christ in Sickness

I've been around college students a long time, and you can't help but have your favorites. One of my favorites was a kid named Tim Vanderveen ...

Attitude Determines Outcome

John C. Maxwell writes:

When confronted with a difficult situation, a person with an outstanding attitude makes the best of it while he gets the worst ...

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's Hardships in Writing

In his autobiography The Oak and the Calf, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn recalls how he "wrote" in the concentration camps, where writing was forbidden, ...

Ronald Reagan's Vulnerability

On November 5, 1994, Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, wrote a letter to his fellow citizens from his home near Santa Barbara. ...

Christian Prisoner Mysteriously Freed

After watching the Jesus film and listening to Christian radio, on July 15, 2001, Samuel (not his real name) took a monumental step for an Afghan and ...

Father and Son Endure Difficult Hike

Pastor Mark Coleman loves to hike, and he passed on that love to his son, Peter. When Peter was only 5 years old, Coleman planned an easy hike on the ...

Bitter Father Questions God

In 1989, 96 fans were crushed to death in a football [soccer] stadium in Sheffield, England, and another 200 were injured. At one of the hospitals where ...

God Suffered as You Suffer

Timothy Keller, pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, writes:

Christianity does not so much offer solutions to the problems of suffering, ...