How NFL Rookies Make the Team

The 2010 website of the Chicago Bears football team presented a series of videos that followed the team's rookies from their first arrival at training ...

Death: Our Enemy and Teacher

In Christ and the Meaning of Life, German theologian Helmut Thielicke tells the story of a young [soldier] who reached out to pick a bouquet of lilacs ...

Dying Man Wants Celebration at His Funeral

On the afternoon of May 2, 1990, I heard holy things. I was visiting Larry Hildreth, a father and husband from our church in Pennsylvania. He was in his ...

Tony Campolo Experiences Powerful Moment at Funeral

I went to my first black funeral when I was 16 years old. A friend of mine, Clarence, had died. The pastor was incredible. From the pulpit he talked about ...

The Power of a Changed Life

Pastor Steve Yeschek, Crystal Lake, Illinois, lost his sister, Judy, after a five-year battle with cancer. She was a woman who, as Steve described her, ...

"Bridge to Terabithia": Why Some People Don't Believe in Hell

In Bridge to Terabithia, 10-year-old Jesse (Josh Hutcherson) is befriended by Leslie (AnnaSophia Robb), the new girl in town. Together they create an ...

How God Comforts

God comforts in many ways, and James and Jill Kilibarda of Minnesota have discovered one of those ways.

Looking forward to the birth of their first child, ...

What Do You Want Said at Your Funeral?

Some friends were hanging out one day, and the conversation grimly turned to the issue of death. One of the friends asked the others, "What would you ...

Absent from the Body, Present with the Lord

The funeral for Pastor Bob Russell's father was held on a cold, blustery day in Pennsylvania. The roads were too bad for cars to go to the cemetery after ...

The Art of Offering Condolence

College English professor Jess Decourcy Hinds, of Brooklyn, New York, recently lost her father to a painful battle with bone cancer. Following his death, ...