"The African Queen": Divine Intervention

The movie The African Queen tells the story of Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart), a hard-drinker who runs a small steamboat through the shallow rivers ...

Surgical Nurse Stands By Her Conviction

Denis Waitley writes in "Your Absolute Bottom Line":

A true story: in the operating room of a large, well-known hospital, it was the surgical ...

Prisoner of War Finds Living Harder than Death

The obituary of Colonel Floyd J. Thompson said that for nine years he "endured cold cells, jungle cages, and torture in Vietnam, becoming the longest-serving ...

NFL Runner Wonders Why God Moved Him

National Football League running back Sherman Smith, the "Sherman Tank," stood six feet four inches tall and packed 225 pounds of solid muscle. ...

"Lord of the Rings": God's Plan Amid Trials

The movie Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, based on J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy trilogy, dramatizes the quest of nine travelers to destroy ...

Army Skydiver Overcomes Accident

Dana Bowman and Jose Aguillon, members of the Golden Knights, the U.S. Army's top parachute team, were practicing a maneuver called the "diamond ...

Stranded Passengers from September 11 Reunite

There were 200 passengers on Flight 929 from London to Chicago on September 11, 2001. As they neared the North American coast, the pilot informed them ...

Comforting Others Who Struggle

On January 17, 1994, ten thousand freight trains seemed to be thundering through our house as the Northridge earthquake hit Los Angeles. When it was over, ...

Being Comfortable Can Kill Us

Too much comfort is dangerous. Literally.

Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley did an experiment some time ago that involved introducing ...

Ministry Means Problems

One big demoralizer in ministry is not having enough people to do the work. A few years ago at Leadership journal, we'd been short-staffed for three ...