Broken Bottle Demonstrates Extravagance for God

Text: "'Leave her alone,' said Jesus. 'Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.'" (Mark 14:3–11). ...

Original Marathon Runner Gave His All

At the end of the Summer Olympics, athletes will be participating in a special event, retracing the long distance run from which the Olympic event got ...

William Carey's Savior His Greatest Concern

William Carey was the great missionary pioneer to India. When he was on his deathbed, he was visited by a young man named Alexander Duff who greatly admired ...

J. I. Packer on Being God's Child

"You sum up the whole of New Testament teaching in a single phrase, if you speak of it as a revelation of the Fatherhood of the holy Creator. In ...

Actor Jim Caviezel Really Suffered

Actor Jim Caviezel, who played Jesus in the movie The Passion of the Christ, suffered during filming. He was struck by lightning more than once. Carrying ...

Husband Forgives Wife's Stealing

Friends of ours grew up in the church and have a fine house, sweet kids, and good jobs. But the wife has an emotional/mental problem. She periodically ...

Churchill Calls Churches to Contribute

During the darkest hours of World War II, Britain faced a critical shortage of silver for the war industries. Informed of the crisis, Winston Churchill ...

Soldiers March Proudly Through Hurricane Isabel

For a week Washington, D.C., meteorologists kept their eye on Hurricane Isabel as she moved in a northwesterly direction from the Southern Atlantic. Boasting ...

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, ...

What Christianity Cannot Be

"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and, if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important."

—C. ...