Sailors Perished Due to Faulty Rescue Equipment

In August 2000, 118 Russian sailors perished when the Kursk nuclear submarine suffered an underwater explosion and became disabled in the depths of the ...

Alan Redpath on Trusting God's Will

There is nothing, —no circumstance, no trouble, no testing, —that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ, right through ...

CEO Jack Welch's Shaken Faith

Jack Welch, former corporate chief at General Electric, grew up as a devoted Irish-Catholic. He was an altar boy, and later, as an adult, he was known ...

CEO Jack Welch Tested by Pain

Jack Welch, former corporate chief at General Electric, grew up as a devoted Irish-Catholic. Early on he was an altar boy, and later, as an adult, his ...

Larry King Respects Believers

In World magazine, interviewer Larry King said:

I can't make that leap that a lot of people around me have made into belief that there's some judge ...

Attitude Tested

When I was 11 and my brother Joe was 15, I was sure he could lift small cars and jump small buildings without breaking a sweat. He was the coolest, toughest, ...

Don't Waste the Pain

Author and speaker Jill Briscoe writes:

I was grateful and excited. My daughter, Judy, agreed to accompany me to Australia where I was to speak at a conference. ...

Convictions under Fire

You don’t have convictions unless you have been tested.

Experience the Best Teacher

Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first, and the lesson afterward.

No Reason for Discouragement

John W. Yates shared this letter from a missionary who had gone into the jungles of New Guinea:

"Man," he said, "it's great to be in ...