The news came with startling swiftness that night. We don't know whether it was prepared text or if the words flowed spontaneously, but one solitary angel was called upon to make an announcement that has never been forgotten. Appearing in a small Judean pasture in the middle of the night, this messenger from heaven introduced the true light that...

Years ago, when we were young, my brother Gene had a dance band for which I played. He asked an attractive teenage girl to sing with his band, but she never got to do so. Her mother just had a baby and was suffering from post-partum depression. Her husband often spent his evenings at a tavern. One night, after her five children were in bed, the weary...

It seems like everywhere you turn someone is reading, has read, or plans to read Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. There is something exhilarating about discovering something that was hidden. An inside look, a covert meaning, a new voice testifying to supposedly new facts-- the plot thickens. So why is this style of writing so tantalizing?  What...

[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...

On a cold Christmas Eve in 1952, when Korea was in the throes of civil war, one young woman struggled along a village street, obviously soon to deliver a child. She pleaded with passersby, "Help me! Please. My baby." No one paid any attention to her. A middle-aged couple walked by. The wife pushed away the young mother and sneered, "Where's...

Back when our kids wanted to travel in the same car as their parents, we journeyed three days to get to a camp in Iowa where I was to speak. I've discovered that the best way for a speaker to gain credibility at family camp is to leave his children at home, but ours have always come along. And I think it's been comforting to other parents to watch...

Legend tells of a young girl who walked to a Christmas church service in a small Mexican village. It was traditional to bring gifts to lay before the nativity scene for Jesus, but the child lamented she was too poor and had nothing to offer. Suddenly, an angel appeared, explaining that even the simplest gift, offered in a spirit of love, would...