In his book Deserted by God?, author and pastor Sinclair Ferguson shares the following story:

The first physician to die of the AIDS virus in the United Kingdom was a young Christian. He had contracted it while doing medical research in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. In the last days of his life, his power of communication failed. He struggled with increasing difficulty to express his thoughts to his wife. On ...

Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Robert F. Kennedy was in Indianapolis that day, speaking in a black neighborhood. It fell to him to break the terrible news to the large crowd that had gathered to hear him speak words of hope.

He sought to comfort his hearers, and did so by sharing his grief over the assassination of his brother, John F. Kennedy—something he had never ...