Witch Receives the Gospel in Salem on Halloween

Shelly Wift laughingly describes herself as a "recovering witch." A plump woman in her early 30s with frizzy hair, she favors long cotton skirts picked ...

Child Says You Must Be Dead to Go to Heaven

The story is told of a Sunday school teacher who wanted to explain to the 6-year-olds in his class what someone had to do in order to go to heaven. In ...

Power of God Only for Believers

The kingdom of God is a present reality in our world accessible to those who will enter it through faith in Jesus. Those who participate in God's kingdom ...

Steve Saint on God's Cleansing Power

The movie The End of the Spear, released in February of 2006, tells the story of Nate Saint and four other missionaries who were murdered by the Waodani ...

Discovering the Holy Spirit

One of the more humorous quirks of scientific history is the debate over who should get the credit for discovering oxygen. Joseph Priestley, an English ...

Blind Man Needs to Be "Born Again" to See

In a book titled, An Anthropologist on Mars, neurologist Oliver Sacks tells about Virgil, a man who had been blind from early childhood. When he was 50, ...

Perfume Doesn't Transform Barbarians

In a TV commercial by one credit card company Capital One, a couple is making a purchase in a shopping center. When the clerk tells how much it will cost, ...

Listening Provides an Opportunity for Evangelism

The book Irresistible Evangelism includes the story of Jan, a staffer with Athletes in Action. After attending a conference where the importance of listening ...

Mel Gibson Compelled to Believe in Jesus

On a special airing of Primetime Live, ABC's investigative news program, Diane Sawyer sat down with Mel Gibson to grill him about his movie, The Passion. ...

Dostoevsky Finds Christ after Escaping Death

Fyodor Dostoevsky was one of the most famous and accomplished Russian writers of the 19th century.

Early in his life, Dostoevsky underwent a virtual resurrection. ...