Payton Endures Repeated Blows

At just 5-foot-10 and 202 pounds, Walter Payton was not a particularly big running back for the National Football League. But he set one of sport's ...

One More Prayer

19th Century preacher and author A. B. Simpson gives a wonderful example of the power of accumulative prayer. In the city of Rangoon resided the largest ...

John Grisham: Rewards of Perseverance

Success seldom comes without pain and perseverance. Take the case of author John Grisham.

Grisham is the world's most commercially successful novelist ...

Keeping Discouragement at Bay

A man stopped to watch a Little League baseball game. He asked one of the youngsters what the score was. "We're losing 18-0," was the answer. ...

Running toward Unseen Goal

United States runner Marla Runyon has been legally blind for 22 years. Even so, she competed in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. In ...

Old Age and Accomplishment

The world seems to worship youth and is terrified of aging. But there was a time when getting older was associated with wisdom and experience. In fact, ...

God Plans Our Growth

When I first ran track in prep school, my coach invited me to his home for dinner one night. After the meal, he pulled out a notebook displaying my name ...

Help for Long Race

Eric "The Swimmer" Moussambani of Equatorial Guinea was an unlikely hero of the Sydney Olympic Games. The 22-year-old African had only learned ...

Train to Persevere

I learned a lesson one day as a track man in my prep school days. I was at the Pennsylvania Relays, a famous Eastern track meet, and our relay team was ...

Degrees of Persecution

In a recent article on the suffering church, FaithWorks listed the degrees of persecution one could face for practice of religious faith:

1. Disapproval ...