The Story Behind "Rudolf, the Red Nosed Reindeer"

One of the most beloved songs of the Christmas season started out as an advertising gimmick. In 1939 Montgomery Ward tapped advertising executive Robert ...

"Invictus": The Power of Forgiveness

Invictus (2009) tells the story of how Nelson Mandela (portrayed by Morgan Freeman), in his first term as the president of South Africa, showed unconditional ...

What Makes a Woman Beautiful?

In 2010, over 5,000 U.S. women were asked to identify what makes a woman beautiful. Of those surveyed:

• Eighty-seven percent said self-confidence
• Eighty-two percent said a positive outlook on life

The Beauty of One Street Person's Selfless Act

In Portland magazine, a priest at a Catholic church in Portland, Oregon, tells a story about a street person named Big Ben who came daily to the church. ...

A Powerful Story of Forgiveness from South Africa

Desmond Tutu is a bishop in South Africa who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work against apartheid. In his book No Future Without Forgiveness, he shares ...

A Good Samaritan in the Civil War

On the wall of what my grandmother called the "sitting room" of her antebellum home in South Carolina, was a constellation of family portraits—old ...

Story of Forgiven Drunk Driver Moves Beth Moore

In her book Living Beyond Yourself: Exploring the Fruit of the Spirit, author and speaker Beth Moore recalls a particularly insightful moment in her life: ...

Rwandan Woman Reconciled to Enemy

In the mid-1990s, Hutu extremists killed between 800,000 and 1 million people in Rwanda. Fourteen years later, the many men and women who experienced ...

The Power of Following God's Leading

Dill Rummel, a woman from the church where I pastor, once told me the story of how a colleague of hers was hospitalized for ten weeks. Her name was Colleen, ...

Seeing the Father's Image

Max Lucado writes about a big, muscle-bound man named Daniel who was swindled by his own brother. He vowed that if he ever saw him again, he would break ...