The Tuskegee Airmen Display Courageous Faithfulness

George Lucas' 2012 film Red Tails provides a dramatized version of the true events behind a group of World War II soldiers called the Tuskegee Airmen. ...

Experiment Shows Our Reluctance to Get Involved in Uncomfortable Situations

The Nobel Prize winning psychologist and economist Daniel Kahneman recounts the story behind a famous experiment conducted at New York University:

Participants ...

Rock Climbing Trip Reveals How Friends 'Raise Our Game'

Sometimes true friends don't just affirm and comfort us; they also "raise our game." That's what happened to Richard Dahlstrom when ...

The 'Safety First' Approach to Life Isn't Christ-centered

In his book The Colors of Hope, Richard Dahlstrom describes what he calls "the safety first mentality." According to this perspective, "the ...

Novelist Wendell Berry's Sketch of a Man Who Was Never Present

In his novel Jayber Crow, Wendell Berry describes a character from the fictional town of Port William named Ray Overhold, a quiet, smiling man who "was ...

12-year-old Boy Calmly Delivers a New Baby

You just never know how God might call you to serve him. For instance, in August of 2011 a 12-year-old boy named Gaelen from Vancouver Island, Canada, ...

The Stories We Love Will Shape Our Character

Professor Daniel Taylor notes that as a child Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Christian leader who was executed for resisting the Nazis, was greatly moved by reading ...

Father Takes a Needle for His Fearful Son

Bryan Loritts said in a sermon:

Recently I was sitting in a doctor's office with one of my young sons, and the nurse wanted to draw blood from him ...

Muslim Man Considers the Cost of Following Christ

Haddon Robbinson writes:

Several years ago, I helped lead a tour in Turkey of the churches mentioned in the Book of Revelation. On the last night, we ...

Wounds Are Part of Battle

In his novel Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful, Alan Paton tells the story of Robert Mansfield, the headmaster of a school in South Africa during the days ...