In his book The Unexpected Journey, Thom Rainer shares the story of Kathi, a woman who left behind a life of witchcraft and Wiccan paganism to become a follower of Jesus Christ. Immediately after her decision to become a Christian, she describes to Thom how God delivered her from the powers of evil in her life, as well as her physical deafness (Kathi had been suffering progressive hearing loss for ...

Big Ed goes to the revival and listens to the preacher. After a while the preacher asks anyone with needs to come forward to be prayed over. Big Ed gets in line. When it's his turn, the preacher says, "Big Ed, what do you want me to pray about?"

Big Ed says, "Preacher, I need you to pray for my hearing."

So the preacher puts one finger in Big Ed's ear and the other hand on top of his head and shouts, ...

Port Authority Police Department officers Will Jimeno and John McLoughlin were the last two people rescued from the World Trade Center following the September 11th terrorist attack. Oliver Stone told their story in his 2006 movie titled World Trade Center.

For Will Jimeno, however, that tragic day represents a defining moment in his Christian faith. Along with McLoughlin and three other officers, Jimeno ...

Finding Neverland is based on the true story of playwright J. M. Barrie (played by Johnny Depp) during the summer he wrote Peter Pan. Time spent playing imaginative games with four young boys going through a series of family crises helped Barrie to imagine the story about a boy who never grows up.

In this scene, Barrie is walking with his large dog in the park and has just met the four boys and their ...

Since the early 1960s, the artists known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude have been creating unique art installations for a public that is often skeptical, sometimes welcoming, and usually completely unprepared for what they're about to experience.

The artists call their work "environmental art," because they use large pieces of fabric to highlight and set apart natural environments—urban or rural—for ...

In the movie Phenomenon, George Malley (John Travolta) is a small-town mechanic whose life changes radically after being knocked unconscious by a bright light from the sky. After this encounter, George discovers he can see and understand complex ideas easily. He starts reading voraciously on a variety of subjects. His newfound genius is demonstrated as he learns Portuguese in 20 minutes and deciphers ...

Signs is the story of the Hess family in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, who wake up one morning to find a 500-foot crop circle in the middle of their cornfield. Graham Hess (Mel Gibson), his brother Merril (Joaquin Phoenix), and Graham's two children, Morgan and Bo, watch TV news reports with growing alarm as they learn that the crop circle in their corn field is similar to others around the world—all ...

On November 9, 2003, a 19-year-old woman was baptized in my church and gave the following testimony:

I choose this day to love and serve Jesus Christ as the Lord, the Messiah, the rest of my life.

My name is Humaira Kahn Kabir (not her real name). I became a Christian 5 months ago. When I was 7 years old, I moved to Pakistan. I was injured, and I was in a coma. After 8 months, I came out of the coma. ...

Doug Lansky has been a travel writer and photographer for many years. In the course of his travels he has collected photos of odd signs from around the world. Some samples:

A white highway sign in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, says, "Entrance Only / Do Not Enter." A yellow diamond-shaped sign from Mill Valley, California, says, "Not a Through Street." Right below it is a blue circle with a white arrow ...

An April 2001, a Gallup poll of 1,000 persons revealed that 63 percent of Americans who have experienced remarkable physical or psychological healing say their religious faith is the "most important influence" in their lives. Only 28 percent of those who have never had such an experience consider religious faith so important.

Similarly, 47 percent of those who have experienced separation, divorce, ...