Jesus from Heaven to Earth

Author and pastor Leith Anderson writes:

Several years ago I was visiting Manila and was taken, of all places, to the Manila garbage dump and saw something ...

Lewis and Clark: Small Beginnings

In 1804, Thomas Jefferson commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to find the source of the Missouri River, and from there to discover a relatively ...

Loving God through Loving Others

From Saul Bellow's collection of traditional Jewish tales comes this story:

In a small Jewish town in Russia, there is a rabbi who disappears each ...

Humbled by God's Holiness?

The pastor walked into the church alone and felt an overwhelming sense of God's holiness. He went to the front, knelt down at the altar rail, and ...

Pascal's Vision

"Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was one of the leading scientists and mathematicians of his age," writes scholar J. M. Cohen in his introduction ...

Boasting in God

Ramon Piaguaje, a Secoya Indian born and raised in the rain forest of Ecuador, won the Winsor & Newton Millennium Art Competition, the largest painting ...

Divine Love in Us

One Sunday in our church service, a woman who sings in our choir, a former drug addict with the HIV virus, told the story of how she came to Christ. She ...

Scott Weiland Defines Humility

Convicted for possession of drugs, member of rock band Stone Temple Pilots, Scott Weiland talked to Rolling Stone about how being in jail impacted his ...

Unexpected Rules for Life's Race

I once read a story about a bicycle race in India. The object of the race was to go the shortest distance possible within a specified time. At the start ...

Randall Cunningham's Testimony

Veteran NFL quarterback, and Christian, Randall Cunningham was recently cut from the Minnesota Vikings (and has been signed by the Dallas Cowboys). He ...