"Ann, you have everything anyone could ever want!" a friend of hers exclaimed one day. "Oh, yes," she answered, "I have a beautiful home, all kinds of material things and a good husband. But what good are all these things if I feel like a walking zombie? I'm sick of taking tranquilizers and sleeping pills. This is no way to live!" Ann had been...

John Terry smiled when he heard his foreman's request. "Will you lead the toolbox safety meeting today after lunch?" It was a busy day, but he was willing to take the time. In fact, his eyes twinkled and his apple cheeks shone as he told the foreman, "I'll be glad to do it." The founder and president of the Terry Construction Company of Greenville...

During the first week after his commitment to Christ, the public defender of the county in which I live received thrilling proof of the power of God to help him live differently. "Pete" Partee clashed with a judge. Instead of responding in anger, as he normally would have done, he sent up a quick prayer to the Lord. "The Lord gave me the power...

[flv:http://media.truthmedianetwork.com/media/ast.flv http://media.truthmedianetwork.com/media/ast.jpg 300 234] With a gun in one hand and a Bible in the other, Sharon Ast knelt beside her bed and asked God’s permission to take her own life. It wasn’t the first time her fate was about to be decided at gunpoint. Growing up, her alcoholic father...

Not too many people can say that they miss regularly getting up at 3:30 in the morning. But Mike Feenstra admits that rising before the sun to spend time in his dairy parlour milking cows is one of the things he misses most since he and his family sold their farm nine years ago. Going farmless The Feenstras have always made farming a family...

When he was fifteen, Roger Sabourin of Medicine Hat, Alberta, went through one of the worst experiences imaginable for a young teen: sexual abuse at the hands of a clergy member. Devastated by the experience but fearing what would happen if he went public with the crime, Roger chose to remain silent, keeping his hurt and grief to himself for the...

Several years ago I was challenged to think about what I had accomplished in my life, and Lord willing, what I would do over the remainder of the years I may be allowed to live.  My upbringing, education and career were centered very much on “accomplishing” (ie: being all that I could be, based on my God-given intelligence.) Truly blessed I...