80 Percent of Our Words Are Shared with Five People

According to a study published in Scientific American, we each speak an average of 16,000 words per day. We like to imagine ourselves conversing with ...

Mailman Hoards 2,500 Pounds of Mail

Everyone knows that a letter carrier has one job—deliver the mail. Apparently a Brooklyn mailman spent a decade avoiding his job by intentionally ...

St. Nicholas—Patron Saint of Pawn Shops

Many people don't realize that Santa Claus, based on the real historical person of Saint Nicholas, a leader in the early church from the city of Myra, ...

Faith Helped Woman Confront Terrorists

In May of 2013 in Woolwich, England, two Islamic extremists attacked a British soldier and hacked him to death with a machete. It was a gruesome crime ...

Ex-Prisoner Writes to Inmates Across the Globe

Every Sunday Clive Jacobsen from Sydney, Australia boards a train with a leather duffel bag, finds a comfortable seat, and settles in for a four-hour ...

City's First Ambulance Runs Over Tourist

In October 1909, Vancouver, British Columbia purchased its first motorized ambulance. In 1909, a new ambulance was a rare thing, but the city spared no ...

Suicide Victim Can't Find One Kind Person

The Golden Gate Bridge, connecting the city of San Francisco with Marin County by spanning the Golden Gate Strait, is one of our world's most recognizable ...

Woman Ministers to Telemarketers

Once, while speaking on the topic of grace in Toronto, I asked the audience about their own experiences conveying grace to others. One woman shocked us ...

Being Nice Won't Lead Others to Christ

We all know that words, without deeds, are dead. However, deeds without words are also dead. Consider the following:

Let's say I have a neighbor, and ...

Muslim Man Provides Insights on the Church

In his book Vanishing Grace, Phillip Yancey writes about a Muslim man who told Yancey, "I have read the entire Koran and can find in it no guidance ...