Johnny Cash's Drug Use Separated Him from God

In the article "Johnny Cash Approaches Judgment Day with Faith," Cash tells Steve Beard of Relevant magazine about his drug use:

I used drugs ...

Pain Can Make Us Willing

In an old Christian song titled "Hornets", the verses recount the stories of Jonah, Moses, and Balaam, and how God got them to say or do what ...

Every Command Tied to a Promise

Every command of God is built upon a promise from God. Every divine call to action (obedience) is, at the same time, a divine summons to trust in God's ...

Bible Trivia

The prince of Grenada, an heir to the Spanish crown, was sentenced to life in solitary confinement in Madrid's ancient prison. The dreadful, dirty, ...

Never Do It Alone

In his fictional short story, Top Man, mountaineer James Ramsey Ullman writes of a three-man mountain-climbing team in the Himalayas that pitches camp—really ...

"Fiddler on the Roof": Disobeying Our Father

The movie Fiddler on the Roof is about a poor Jewish father's struggle to cling to tradition in an ever-changing world. The main character, Tevye, ...

Marilyn Manson on Teenage Rebellion

Rock musician Marilyn Manson says:

Resistance always will be the first thing to fuel the fire when you're young. That's how I learned about heavy ...

Seeing Yourself in a Sermon

Following the Sunday morning service, the pastor stood at the back of the church, shaking hands with the worshipers as they left. As one man shook hands, ...

God, Our Ultimate Troubleshooter

I was stumped. My old Macintosh laptop simply would not run the Mac Bible software anymore. Though I had worked with it for hours, nothing I did would ...

Hearing and Obeying

Robert Kupferschmid was an 81-year old with no flying experience. However, due to a tragic emergency, he was forced to fly an airplane. On June 17, 1998, ...