"Shawshank Redemption": Shielded by Peace

In the feature film The Shawshank Redemption, Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), tells the story of Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins)—a ...

Mutiny and Redemption on the "Bounty"

On April 28, 1789, Lieutenant William Bligh, commander of the H.M.S. Bounty, was awakened by men who "seizing me, tied my hands with a cord and threatened ...

God, Our Ultimate Troubleshooter

I was stumped. My old Macintosh laptop simply would not run the Mac Bible software anymore. Though I had worked with it for hours, nothing I did would ...

When Revival Blossoms

In Christianity Today,Todd Stames writes:

What started as a special presentation by the Pearl River Central High School's Fellowship of Christian Athletes ...

Touching Hearts, Not Turning Heads

An increase in speculative knowledge in divinity is not what is so much needed by our people as something else. Men may abound in this sort of light and ...

Truths of Scripture

There are no graduates in the school of human pain. ... All too often we will be faced with the necessity of relearning faith's lessons and of remaking ...

Failure or Opportunity?

Somebody asked Winston Churchill one time, "What most prepared you to lead Great Britain through World War II?" For a period of time, Great ...

Success after a Fall

Success doesn't mean everything in our lives has turned out well. You can be successful in coming back from a fall.

Young at Heart

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair. ...

Falling Down and Getting Up Again

I heard once of an Italian peasant woman who happened to bump into a monk who lived in a monastery high on a hill above her village. Since she bumped ...