The Courage of a Child

In A Pretty Good Person, Lewis Smedes writes:

A federal judge had ordered New Orleans to open its public schools to African-American children, and the ...

Leaving Our Shells Behind

From time to time, lobsters have to leave their shells in order to grow. They need the shell to protect them from being torn apart, yet when they grow, ...

Better to Dare

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy ...

A Flag of Rags

In the final years of our imprisonment, the North Vietnamese moved us from small cells with one or two prisoners to large rooms with as many as 30-40 ...

Decide for Yourself

You've got to decide sometimes in your life when it's okay not to listen to what other people are saying. ... If I had listened to other people, ...

Faith to Tell the Truth

Kim Duk-Soo will never forget November 20, 1950. That was the day Communist troops found him hiding with his father in a root cellar.

Kim, now the administrator ...

Reminded of Our Power

On July 15, 1986, Roger Clemens, the sizzling right-hander for the Boston Red Sox, started his first All-Star Game. In the second inning, he came to bat, ...

Terrified by the Unknown

An Arab chief tells a story of a spy who was captured and then sentenced to death by a general in the Persian army. This general had the strange custom ...

The Best Decision-Makers

The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive.

Paying the Ultimate Price

Paul Harvey tells a story about Lieutenant Commander Edward Henry "Butch" O'Hare, the Navy's number-one ace in the Second World War ...