A group of 4-8 year olds was asked, "What does love mean?" Here are some of their answers: "When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore so my grandfather d...
A man was visiting a church. He parked his car and started toward the front entrance. Another car pulled up nearby, and the irritated driver said to him, "I always park there. You took my place!" The ...
Christian media expert Ted Baehr says that by age 17, the average child has spent between 40,000 and 63,000 hours watching television and movies and playing video games. Parents, he says, need to be i...
A schoolteacher injured his back and had to wear a plaster cast around the upper part of his body. It fit under his shirt and was not noticeable at all. On the first day of the term, still with the ca...
Lots of folks are quoting statistics that Christians are more likely than non-Christians to divorce; but those numbers are deceptive, as Glenn Stanton points out in a Focus on the Family report. He wr...
Joe McKeever
With God's help, you can leave behind the painful memories of difficult church experience....
Kefa Sempangi (whose story is told in the book A Distant Grief), was a national pastor in Africa and barely escaped with his family from brutal oppression and terror in his home country of Uganda. The...
Separation from God I live in a small, rural community. There are lots of cattle ranches around here and every once in awhile a cow wonders off and gets lost. It's a big deal because if you happen ...
County music star Josh Turner tells a story of how he came to meet Johnny Cash. He told USA Weekend that he had been reading about Cash’s illness and wanted to meet him and encourage him. He found out...
Recently in Bill Keane's Family Circus comic strip the little boy says, "Ah-Choo!" and his mother says, "God bless you!" He says it again and again she says, "God bless you." He does it again and agai...
The victory over worldliness cannot be won by conforming to a list of rules. The battle is won through the power of the gospel applied to our daily choices....
The scene is a courtroom trial in South Africa. A frail black woman stands slowly to her feet. She is more than 70 years old. Facing her from across the room are several white security police officers...
The greatest talents are those who keep trying despite rejection and apparent failure until they do succeed....
On March 28th of 2004, “Shannon Kramer's plans to fire a rocket toward his girlfriend went awry when the firework ricocheted inside his car and dived between his legs, bursting in a display t...
Russell Moore
What we often forget is the second casualty of an abortion culture: the consciences of countless men and women....