IRS Agent Serves as a Parable of the Church

Christian leader Mark Labberton relates a personal story about when he had a seemingly unsolvable problem with the IRS. Labberton writes:

After several ...

Famous Painter Haunted by 'God Questions'

The lonely artist had made up his mind. Today was the day he would end it all for good. He climbed the tropically wooded hill behind his Tahitian hut, ...

Church Gives Prostitutes a Second Chance

The Huffington Post ran a beautiful story about a church in Honolulu called Bluewater Mission. This small church started a restaurant called Seed, which ...

Trail Angels Help Travelers on Pacific Crest Trail

An article in the Chicago Tribune by Chris Erskine began: "By any measure, the Pacific Crest Trail is a beastly thing, an angry anaconda that slithers ...

Army Unit Volunteers for Daring Mission

Near the end of World War II, a plane carrying 24 members of the U.S. military, crashed into the New Guinea jungle during a sightseeing excursion. The ...

Pulitzer-Prize Winner Annie Dillard on Witnessing

If you've been a Christian awhile you know that we're supposed to share our faith. But that's where things get dicey. In her book Teaching ...

Men Refuse to Give Up on Missing Friend

Stephen Mansfield tells a true story about a church that had an incredible ministry to men. For years the driving force behind the men's ministry ...

Curious Reporter Investigates Her Own Marriage Proposal

"As a reporter, I pride myself on being able to get to the bottom of things," says Maryanne Firth, a writer for Ontario, Canada's Welland ...

Atheist Student Moved to Faith by Friends' Prayers

Putti Sok told her Christian college friends, "Leave me alone and quit praying for me." Putti described herself as a "Cambodian Buddhist girl," even though ...

Standing in Line with V.D. Patients

Christian author John White tells the story of his days as a medical student. For one of his classes, he missed a practicum about venereal disease and ...