Girl Blackmails Her Brother after He Kills a Duck

There is a great story about a little boy who killed his grandmother's pet duck. He accidentally hit the duck with a rock from his sling-shot. The ...

Search for "Prodigal" Father Reveals God's Presence

In a sermon titled "The Hopes and Fears of All the Years," Craig Barnes says that the message of Christmas is not that we always get what we ...

Young Man Discovers That God Is For Us

Keith Hartsell of Wheaton, Illinois shared the following experience:

I was with a friend a few years ago in California, and as we were driving around the ...

The Fear of God Is Like Finding Safety in a Storm

Suppose you were exploring an unknown Greenland glacier in the dead of winter. Just as you reach the sheer cliff with a spectacular view of miles of jagged ...

A Contemporary Philosopher on Our Fear of Death

Contemporary philosopher Simon Critchley often writes about how we don't know how to prepare for death. He's especially surprised that Christians, ...

President Lincoln Tells Former Slaves How to Live Free

In the last days of the Civil War, the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia, fell to the Union army. Abraham Lincoln insisted on visiting the city. ...

Adopted Child from Haiti Assured of Future Food Supplies

Fred and Cheryl went to Haiti 25 years ago to pick up a child they had adopted. Addie was five-years-old. Her parents had been killed in a traffic accident ...

Psychologist Blames Unhappiness on Uncertainty

Daniel Gilbert (a psychology professor at Harvard) drew from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index and stated that the Index showed "that Americans ...

A Faith That Does Not Shrink from Death

We have a faith that does not shrink from death. The fundamental concern of our faith is both to reveal with fearsome accuracy the nature of death, and ...

Not Dead—Asleep

Every once in a while, you hear a stunning story about loved ones who are notified of a death in the family that hasn't actually happened. In this ...