Habitat for Humanity: A Response to Need

Millard Fuller was on his way to becoming a self-made millionaire before he was 30 years old. But devotion to work was threatening his health and his ...

Donald Miller Quits Chewing Tobacco

Donald Miller writes in his book Searching For God Knows What:

Several years ago, I chewed tobacco: Long-cut Wintergreen Skoal. I know, I know, it was ...

Dynamite Inventor Confronted by His Own Epitaph

In 1867, Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel invented a new high explosive, which he named "dynamite." He was convinced that his invention would make ...

Former Muslim Baptized Despite His Burns

Missionaries Ilir and Kate Cami write:

For some years we have worked with a ministry to refugees in Athens, Greece. Athens is part of the "Refugee ...

Augustine on Being Displeased with Our Old Natures

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain that which you are not.

Pastor Almost Loses Wife on Easter

David Coffin writes in Leadership Journal:

It was Good Friday. My house looked more like a set for Rescue 911 than a place of solemn preparation for the ...

New Citizen Wins the Lottery

In October 2005, Moses Bittok celebrated an experience he had waited a lifetime to achieve: he became a U.S. citizen. That alone would have been enough ...

Discovering the Holy Spirit

One of the more humorous quirks of scientific history is the debate over who should get the credit for discovering oxygen. Joseph Priestley, an English ...

Anne Rice Praises Jesus

Anne Rice, whom the media has called "the Queen of the Occult," has sold millions of novels about vampires and witches. Several of them were made into ...

Blind Man Needs to Be "Born Again" to See

In a book titled, An Anthropologist on Mars, neurologist Oliver Sacks tells about Virgil, a man who had been blind from early childhood. When he was 50, ...