"Remember the Titans": Willingness to Endure Hardship

Remember the Titans, a movie based on the true story of a 1971 Alexandria, Virginia, football team, offers a message of racial reconciliation. Early in ...

Peace Amid Turmoil

There once was a king who announced a painting contest. He was building a new palace, and he wanted the main entrance hall to be decorated with a large ...

Father's Hand Rescues Us

One of the most powerful images of my wife's childhood came when she and a neighbor girl were playing in some woods behind their homes. The neighbor ...

Max Lucado's Prayer in Aftermath of Terrorism

At the September 15, 2001, satellite broadcast of "America Prays," author Max Lucado read the following prayer that he wrote in response to ...

Cost of Terrorist Attack

The terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, has cost Americans more than can ever be counted. But by late September, some of those costs were already ...

Mission to Die

In The God of the Towel Jim McGuiggan writes:

In 490 B.C. as Xerxes was advancing into Greece, he came to Thermopylae, a small pass in central Greece. ...

Necessary Nails

In the lower Congo region of Africa, tribal artisans are often called upon to craft nkisi nkongi, or "power objects." These wooden fetishes, ...

Knowing God through Suffering

Doctors and nurses were doing everything possible for my wife, the mother of my seven children, yet I could see the hopelessness in their faces. Through ...

Rejoicing in All Circumstances

Author Bob Reccord writes:

As I write this book, I'm having to exercise the faith of dealing with the prison of pain. Unexpectedly, I suffered a severe ...

Old Wounds Resurfacing

When my mother-in-law was first married, she was in a serious car accident that caused her to be thrown into the windshield (it was in the days before ...