About sixty seconds later we all heard a blood curdling scream coming from the other side of the house… While we were Youth Pastors in a...

I was scheduled to go on a camping trip with my son. However, the previous several months had been filled with frustrations concerning...

One day when I was a twenty-three year old youth pastor in a church in Illinois, I was asked to come to the pastor’s office. When I...

I Refereed My Parent’s Fight One night when I was fourteen I was sitting in my living room with my mom and dad watching a TV show;...

George was a rough man. He had been in gangs, prison, deadly fights and on drugs. He had survived that time of his life (which was...

I looked at the boy who seemed to be in deep despair…. I always shop for groceries with my wife. I don’t know how it got started but...

It would take a miracle. I met Robin while living in Southern California. She was a single mom with two children, a girl five, and a boy...

I was afraid it would break her heart. In the summer of 1970 I gave my life to Christ. Within three months I received a call to ministry...

Warning: This story is a heart-breaker! Before I left with my family to go to Arizona at age seven, I had a dog named Chum. He was half...

“I wanted to hurt the man badly. One day I came home from the church office and learned that our across-the-street neighbor had come to...

Before she became a Christian, my wife, Shirley, used to have nightmares; really scary ones. She would dream of demons, and hell, and the...

Every kid fears a bully and every neighborhood has one. The one in my neighborhood was named Tom. He was two years older than me....

My father-in-law, whose name was Joe, always wanted to have a watch dog to guard his business. He had a growing farm machinery business...

Matthew 2:16 tells us that King Herod was a very dangerous man. My Christmas story this year is about an even more dangerous man. In the...

Can I be gut-level honest? When I was in high school I was a cheater. I cheated in most every class. I would cheat by copying other...

When I was in my pre-teen years, somewhere around ten to twelve years old, I would spend a lot of time hiking, exploring and fishing at...

Each year my wife Shirley and I would go to our denomination’s International Convention . However one year, she wasn’t able to come. So I...

One year on a trip home for vacation, I visited an old friend from before I had become a Christian. His name was Brian. He was a beer...

One night in January while I was in seminary, I had to attend an out of town school activity about two hours away from where we lived....

I’m going to let this story stand alone; no explanations, no sermonizing, no clarifications. “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You...