Boy Doesn’t Trust Ability to Handle Water; Trusts Father to Catch Him

Greg Gilbert writes in What Is the Gospel?:

I started trying to teach my son to swim early on. It was a chore. A year or so old at the time, the little ...

Pastor Makes Tough Decision on Risky Missions Trip

In his book The Jesus Revolution, pastor and author Leith Anderson shares a story about the tension that sometimes comes between obeying God and obeying ...

Eddie Would Go!

In his book Passed Through Fire, pastor Rick Bundschuh tells the story of Hawaiian surfer Eddie Aikau:

If you ever visit Hawaii, you may notice a plethora ...

The Honor of Early Adoption

The notion that "the first will be last" doesn't seem to bother some folks. When Apple's revolutionary iPhone hit the market in late ...

Mom Helps Disabled Son Graduate

When Sumner Spence expressed his desire to attend college, many people scoffed because he suffers from cerebral palsy. Sumner can't read books because ...

Human Beings Are Poor at Risk Assessment

As human beings, we pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk. Yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about ...

Crocodile Hunter Killed by Unlikely Animal

Steve Irwin, known around the world as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed on September 4, 2006, while filming wildlife along the Great Barrier ...

Fear Saves Ski Jumper's Life

For years, the opening of ABC's The Wide World of Sports illustrated "the agony of defeat" through the painful ending of an attempted ski ...

Father Risks His Life for a Diamond

John Henry Beukema, pastor of Cypress Bible Church in Cypress, Texas, shares:

My father, Dr. Jack Beukema, had a diamond that was very valuable to him. ...

Safety Versus Purpose

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

—Philanthropist John Shedd (1850–1926)