Percentage of U.S. adults who say they have:

• Been protected from harm by a guardian angel: 55 percent
  
  
• Felt called by God to do something: 45 percent
  
  
• Witnessed or experienced miraculous, physical healing: 23 percent
  
  
• Heard the voice of God speaking to them: 20 percent
  
  

Highlights from a 2008 Harris Poll nation-wide survey of 2,126 U.S. adults:

• Americans who believe in God: 80 percent (unchanged since the last survey in 2005)
  
  
• Americans who believe Jesus is the Son of God: 71 percent
  
  
• Americans who believe in the resurrection of Jesus: 70 percent
  
  
• Americans who believe in the Virgin Birth: 61 percent
  
  
• Americans who believe in the survival of the soul after death: 68 percent
  
  

In the winter of 2007, a close friend of mine was felled by not one but two brain aneurysms. For weeks she lingered on life support, growing weaker each day. As her condition deteriorated, her children were called in to say their goodbyes, and her church prepared for a funeral. Then Linda suddenly snapped out of her coma. As she came to, she looked over at her husband and asked, "Where is everybody ...

In 1993, Lt. Col. Gary Morsch joined the Army Reserves as a doctor to care not only for U.S. soldiers, but also for wounded civilians and prisoners of war. In 2005, as a part of the war in Iraq, he was called up to serve as the field doctor for a battalion near the Iranian border. He would take care of soldiers in the medical tent, provide supervision and training to eight combat medics, and visit ...

We can actually learn a lot about some of Satan's strategies in spiritual warfare by studying the military strategies of some of the warriors of old. In his book Head Game, author Tim Downs writes:

Psy-ops stands for Psychological Operations, a form of warfare as old as the art of war itself. An early example of this can be found in the battle strategies of Alexander the Great. On one occasion when ...

Whenever we speak of the end times, our hearts often quicken—partly out of joy, yet also out of fear. To speak of end times is to speak of somewhat uncertain times. "No one knows about that day or hour," Christ says, "not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son." But the uncertainty of calendars and dates isn't what troubles us most. It's the notion of final judgment. So perhaps these words from ...

Anthony Burger died at age 44. Many feel that he was the finest gospel pianist that ever lived. He spent ten years playing for the Gaither Vocal Band, and in 2006 accompanied the Gaithers on a Christian cruise in the Caribbean. Fifteen hundred people were on the cruise. They vacationed during the day, and they'd come to a gospel concert in the ship's theater at night. The fourth night out, Anthony ...

A new report released Monday, June 23, by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life demonstrates the myriad ways that faith in America is more variegated and nuanced than it may appear at first glance.

Researchers for Pew's U.S. Religious Landscape Survey analyzed the religious practices of more than 35,000 U.S. adults and found that they generally embrace their own faith while respecting—and sometimes ...

Laura Armstrong is the founder of Chemo Angels, which she describes as "a volunteer organization dedicated to adding a ray of sunshine to the lives of those undergoing treatment for cancer." Laura has provided that ray of sunshine by identifying cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and teaming them up with several volunteers, called "Chemo Angels," who commit to regularly send cards, gifts, and ...

A 2008 Harris Initiative online poll of 2,513 U.S. adults revealed America's top ten favorite books:

1. The Bible
   
   
2. Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
   
   
3. Lord of the Rings (trilogy), by J. R. R. Tolkien
   
   
4. Harry Potter (series), by J. K. Rowling
   
   
5. The Stand, by Stephen King
   
   
6. The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
   
   
7. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
   
   
8. Angels and Demons, by Dan Brown
   
   
9. Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
   
   
10. Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger