Shoplifting Girl Learns About Grace

Author Lee Strobel writes:

An acquaintance called with what he said was an embarrassing request: His little girl had been caught shoplifting from our church ...

Recall Notification

Recently I received in the mail a recall notice. It looked like a recall notice regarding my automobile. This one was different, much more personal. Stamped ...

Brawling Hockey Player Learns Meaning of Pardon

Several years ago I heard Bob Sheffield of the Navigators tell a moving story of what it means to receive God's forgiveness. Before he became a Christian, ...

We Are Like a Contorted Christmas Tree

There it stood—the best tree in the lot. It was the second Christmas of our married life, and with newlywed-like impulse, we decided to forego the ...

Relationship with Christ Makes Change Easier

When I was dating my wife, Anna, one thing I admired about her was her love for sports. I love sports too, but there are two sports I don't like. ...

Clothed for Entrance to Heaven

I make no claim to being a good golfer, but I love to play golf, watch golf, and on good nights I even dream golf.

So when I was invited to attend the ...

Spurning Christ

In December 1999, an extreme sports fanatic scaled the 120-foot statue of Christ the Redeemer on Brazil's Corcovado mountain and jumped from its outstretched ...

Jesus Is Our Cheat Sheet

Steve Winger from Lubbock, Texas, writes about his last college test, a final in a logic class known for its difficult exams:

To help us on our test, the ...

Honored by Association

In the town of Stepanavan, Armenia, I met a woman whom everyone called "Palasan's wife." She had her own name, of course, but townspeople ...

Jesus' "About Face!"

Quite unlike Hitler or the Stones or Hefner--who also changed the world, simply by intuiting which way the parade was heading and getting in front of ...