Pain Can Make Us Willing

In an old Christian song titled "Hornets", the verses recount the stories of Jonah, Moses, and Balaam, and how God got them to say or do what ...

NASCAR Crew Chief Decides Against Cheating

It was a small adjustment that could make a big difference. Sure, it was against NASCAR rules, but almost everyone else was doing it. So crew chief Tim ...

Japanese Ambassador Saves Jews from Gestapo

As a boy, Chiune Sugihara dreamed of becoming Japan's ambassador to Russia. By the 1930s, as ambassador to Lithuania, he was a step away from fulfilling ...

Martin Luther King, Jr., on Doing God's Will

I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end of life. The end of life is not to be happy. ...

"Pearl Harbor": Trusting the Father's Orders

The movie Pearl Harbor tells of the events leading up to and immediately following the Japanese attack on the U.S. on December 7, 1941. The film follows ...

Every Command Tied to a Promise

Every command of God is built upon a promise from God. Every divine call to action (obedience) is, at the same time, a divine summons to trust in God's ...

High Stakes of Following Christ

Calvin Miller writes:

I think the most vibrant missionaries I have met are medical doctors serving in lonely outposts of the Arab world. These physicians ...

Evangelizing in the Worst Circumstances

Dawson Trotman writes:

In 1948 in Europe I met for three days with a group of 25 German fellows. I talked to them every evening for three hours, laying ...

Bible Trivia

The prince of Grenada, an heir to the Spanish crown, was sentenced to life in solitary confinement in Madrid's ancient prison. The dreadful, dirty, ...

"The Inn of the Sixth Happiness": Faith Against All Odds

The 1958 film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is the true story of Gladys Aylward (Ingrid Bergman), an English servant who became a faithful missionary ...