Rimsky-Korsakov's fourteenth opera was about the legendary Russian city of Kitezh. The legend is that long ago Tartar invaders were coming to destroy the city. A woman named Fevronia prayed that God w...
As frightening and foreboding as death may seem, it can neither hurt nor destroy the child of God. In his book Facing Death, Billy Graham relates an experience of Donald Grey Barnhouse, one of America...
How great thou art? A dose of humility migth be good for one's health. ...
It happened in the 1840s in Uruguay. The Uruguayan Navy was desperate. They were fending off the navy of an aggressive force from Argentina. They ran out of conventional ammunition and thought their ...
An enthusiastic believer in Christ, Dan Richardson, lost his battle with cancer. But his life demonstrated that even though the physical body may be destroyed by disease, the spirit can remain triumph...
In its column, "You Asked Us," the Canadian Magazine recently dealt with Hitler's use of the swastika. Included in their article was the following statement. In the end, if his National Reich Church h...
Unamuno, the Spanish philosopher, tells about the aqueduct built by the Romans in Segovia in 109 A.D. For 1800 years, that aqueduct carried cool water from the mountains down to the hot, thirsty city....
There is an old tale about a man named Androcles. He was a runaway slave in Rome. He stopped and risked his life to help a wounded lion attending to his wounded paw. There was nothing in it for him, a...
Loneliness is a thief seeking to steal, kill and destroy those it impacts....
"In many ways, ministry is like golf. It is so difficult to get it right, but every now and again, we do it the way it should be done and gain the confidence to ‘go again.’ So keep swinging and prayin...
Sunk by Own Attack During World War II the U.S. submarine Tang surfaced under the cover of darkness to fire upon a large Japanese convoy off the coast of China. Since previous raids had left the Ameri...
In an interview in the March-April 2003 issue of The Door, preacher/author Calvin Miller observed, "Michael Card and I are kind of amateur astronomers, and he's much better at it than I am. We were in...
In a recent issue of his One Minute Uplift newsletter, Rick Ezell writes: "The pages of history are lined with individuals encountering negative setbacks only to make something positive out of them. T...
As a young seminarian at Princeton Theological Seminary in supervised clinical work at Trenton State Hospital, a psychiatric institution in New Jersey, each Monday I was given a list of patients whom ...