Father Dies Saving His Daughter in Rockslide

On September 30, 2013 Dwayne and Dawna Johnson of Buena Vista, Colorado had the perfect day planned. The electrician and high school football coach and ...

Lithuanian Christian Radiates Christ's Love in Siberia

Nijole Sadunaite is a Lithuanian Christian who was severely persecuted for her faith under Communism. Arrested in 1974 for publishing underground reports ...

A Groom Rescues His Bride from Disaster

On Friday, February 25, 2011, Emma Howard and Chris Greenslade were married at Christ the King Church in Christchurch, New Zealand. But getting to the ...

Leader Earns Trust by Getting in the Mud with Others

Saul and Pilar Cruz, a married couple who founded Armonia Ministries in Mexico City, launched their ministry by planting a church on the edge of a vast ...

The Mother of a Gang Member Demonstrates God's Love

Gregory Boyle retells the story of a 15-year-old gang member named Rigo. Rigo was getting ready for a special worship service for incarcerated youth when ...

Does It Hurt?

When you go to a doctor for your annual check-up, he or she will often begin to poke, prod, and press various places, all the while asking, "Does ...

Giving Is Theological

Because it's unpopular, the idea that giving is a theological matter and a major expression of your Christian faith has been, for the most part, lost. ...

The Gifts of a Dishwasher

In 1994, Alex Dovales was drifting toward Miami on a rickety boat with twenty-seven other Cubans. Two years later, Dovales saw fourteen exhausted, penniless ...

An Example of Giving

Oseola McCarty, 87, did one thing all her life: laundry. Now she's famous for it--or at least for what she did with her profits.

For decades, Miss ...

Searching for Loopholes

A handful of our people went on a mission trip to Eastern Europe several weeks ago. When they came back, they told me they were really impressed with ...