My wife and I were visiting with some friends who had known my father, Dr. M. R. De Haan, when he was the pastor of their church. His ministry had left a deep and lasting impression on them. One woman told about an unforgettable experience that happened 50 years earlier.
She…
Many lawbreakers on trial for their crimes hope that legal loopholes can be found to keep them from being punished. If they have enough money, they gladly pay for the services of attorneys who can discover those escape hatches for their clients.
The search for loopholes takes place outside the courtroom…
The prophet Hosea used the tribe of Ephraim as a poetic representation of the northern kingdom of Israel. In Hosea’s colorful admonition, Ephraim had become “a cake unturned” (Hos. 7:8).
In today’s terminology, Hosea might have said that Ephraim was “half-baked.” The people were like a pancake burned on one side…
I walked out of the woods as quickly as I could. Huge thunderheads had suddenly appeared on the horizon, towering skyward and turning the morning back into night. Just before I got to my truck, a huge rainstorm broke over me. Raindrops pelted down furiously from the black sky.
But most…
Don Weiss realized that he had gone over the edge. He had just taken his 3-year-old daughter Megan to their third fast-food restaurant of the day, searching not for a meal but for a character from an animated film. “Here I was,” he said, “driving all over town looking for…
A good man is hard to find these days. At least that’s the impression you might get from a society that is having a tough time finding heroes.
Too often, though, we look in the wrong places when we’re searching for role models. We look for someone who is a good…
When Paul Schneider was 2 years old, a medical specialist said that he would never walk or have understandable speech because of brain damage that occurred at birth.
Paul proved the experts wrong. He not only learned to walk, but he also earned a college degree and spoke to audiences more…
Mary is a senior citizen with many health problems. She is also a widow with a home to keep up. No use expecting Mary to do much in the church or community anymore, right? Wrong! In spite of her limitations, her faith continues to work.
Although Mary and her late husband…
We don’t usually expect to hear spiritual wisdom coming from professional football coaches. George Stewart, special teams coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, may not have realized all he was saying in response to the firing of head coach Sam Wyche. “I guess it had to come to this,” said…
The human body is made up of 10 trillion cells, which are home to some 100 trillion bacteria. A dime-sized patch of skin may hold up to 2 million bacteria. The presence of all those little critters might seem to be an overwhelming threat to our health. But scientists say…
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