Jimmy Stewart's Reliance on God

Actor Jimmy Stewart found comfort in Psalm 91. When the United States entered World War II in 1941, Stewart enlisted in the Army Air Corps and prepared ...

Consequences of a Mistake

I was a junior in high school, and I loved metal shop. Metal shop was filled with points of caution. You were regularly working with metal that contained ...

Sacrificial Love

On August 16, 1987, Northwest Airlines flight 225 crashed just after taking off from the Detroit airport, killing 155 people. One survived: a four-year-old ...

Tornado Insurance

"We said a prayer that God would watch over us."

—Sherri Conley, of Oklahoma, telling the Daily Oklahoman how she, her husband, and two ...

Unwavering Trust

The commercial begins with a young girl standing alone in a picturesque meadow. The camera then pans to another part of the field where it shows a gigantic ...

Avoiding False Security

The Hibernia oil platform in the North Atlantic is 189 miles (315 kilometers) east-southeast of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. As a fixed structure, ...

Shirley Dobson's Protector

When Focus on the Family was in its early stages and our children were young, my husband, Jim was often traveling. I had grown accustomed to his absences ...

He's Got Me Covered

One night, while my young son, Ryan, was sleeping, a storm began brewing outside. After a loud clap of thunder, I heard Ryan wake up and run to find me. ...

On the Edge

When my daughter Katie was small, she worried about falling off the changing table. Twisting her head so that the end of the table was right in front ...

The Wisdom of the Coney

The Coney is a rock badger, a bit larger than the prairie dogs that infect our state of Colorado. Coneys are gray, the color of the rocks. As long as ...