Mozart Worked Hard to Be Creative

In 1815, Germany's General Music Journal published a letter in which allegedly Mozart described his creative process:

When I am, as it were, completely ...

Thieves Paint Getaway Car but Don't Change Plates

After selling his pickup truck, 22-year-old Westley C. French, decided he wanted it back. So Westley and a few friends mugged the new truck owner, beating ...

Man Uses Foam to Transform Beat-up Mercedes Benz

Who said that you can't turn an old, beat-up car into something beautiful? In 2014 a Lithuanian man was tired of his old, beat-up Mercedes-Benz CLK ...

Object Lesson on What's Really in Our Heart

To illustrate our need for a changed heart in addition to changed behavior, author Christopher Ash uses the following illustration (or object lesson) ...

Wood Ticks and the Disease of 'More'

Nancy Ortberg tells the story about how their family dog, a golden retriever named Baxter, would get covered with ticks. So after doing some research ...

Mythbusters: You Can Teach Old Dogs New Tricks

In 1523, an English animal trainer named John Fitzherbert said, "The dog must be trained when he is a whelp, or else it will not be [trained]; for ...

After Operation, Blind Man Slowly Learns to See

At the age of 45, Michael May miraculously regained his sight. May was blinded at age three, and lived 42 years of his life without sight. Then, in 1999, ...

Rational Academic Finds Radical Faith

Holly Ordway was a highly educated atheist who thought Christianity was both "a historical curiosity" and "a blemish on modern civilization." ...

Former Assassin Transformed by Love

Kim Shin Jo, a gentle pastor from South Korea, used to be a trained killer.

In January of 1968, Jo and a team of assassins descended from North Korean, ...

First Time of Communion Changes Woman's Life

In her memoir Take This Bread, author Sara Miles shares how the first time she ever took Communion changed her life forever. She writes:

One early, cloudy ...