Johnny Cash's Wife Confronts His Drug Abuse

Singer Johnny Cash's wife, June Carter Cash, died May 15, 2003. As a follower of Jesus, she displayed many Christlike qualities. In particular, she ...

Learning by Human Example

In 1985 product developers at Matsushita Electric Company were trying to develop a home bread-making machine. "But they were having trouble getting ...

Student Wrestles with Faith Questions

Jonathan Lunde, instructor at Trinity College in Deerfield, Illinois, writes:

This past semester, I was privileged to have working with me as an assistant ...

NYC Firehouse Captain Led by Example

The book Firehouse, by David Halberstam, tells of Manhattan's Firehouse 40/35, from which 13 men responded on September 11th and only one returned. ...

Leaders and Followers at Mount Everest

The summit of Mount Everest in the Himalayan Mountains of Nepal towers 29,035 feet above sea level. On May 29, 1953, two men were the first to reach its ...

Serving by Cleaning Shoes

The late Dawson Trotman, founder of The Navigators, was visiting Taiwan on one of his overseas trips. During the visit he hiked with a Taiwanese pastor ...

Hidden, Humble Servants

In The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton comments that good people are usually hidden. I'm convinced he's right.

What convinced me was a woman ...

God Converts Others through Us

When William Carey, the "father of modern missions," first tried to convince fellow Baptists that the Great Commission required them (not just ...

John Wooden's Example

[John Wooden's] UCLA teams won ten NCAA championships in 12 years…. No one speaks more eloquently about Wooden than Bill Walton, who played for UCLA ...

God Transforms Dad's Life

Author, pastor, and former atheist Lee Strobel says in one sermon:

How can I tell you the difference God has made in my life? My daughter Allison was 5 ...