Discouraged Woman Learns What Good Shepherds Do

As a young mother, one Christmas brought Brenda Nixon to despair. Amid all the holiday stress, her husband's job was shaky and the grim possibility ...

Exploding Whale Makes a Mess

Sometimes we get walloped with the messiness of life when we least expect it. Take what happened in Tainan, Taiwan. On January 17, 2004, a 66-ton sperm ...

Woman Finds Peace on the Journey

Catherine Marshall writes in, "Touching the Heart of God":

My friend Marge had an experience aboard a plane bound for Cleveland, waiting for ...

"Endurance": Ernest Shackleton Senses God's Presence

The story of Sir Ernest Shackleton's daring expedition to cross the Antarctic is captured in the film Endurance.

In December of 1914, Shackleton and ...

Setback Saves Trapped Miners

In late July 2002, nine Pennsylvania miners were trapped in the Quecreek Mine and not been heard from in two days. When 50 million gallons of water had ...

"Snow White": Fear and the Imagination

In the classic Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the dwarfs return home from a hard day at the mines, their picks slung over their small shoulders. ...

NFL Runner Wonders Why God Moved Him

National Football League running back Sherman Smith, the "Sherman Tank," stood six feet four inches tall and packed 225 pounds of solid muscle. ...

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 ...

First, Call Dad

While kayaking in southern England off the Isle of Wight, Mark Ashton-Smith, a 33-year-old lecturer at Cambridge University, capsized in treacherous waters. ...

Handling Life's Pressures

I got a ticket for speeding and had to go to traffic school. In the defensive-driving part, they created a scenario: "You're stopped at a stop ...