He was in the first third grade class I taught at Saint Mary's School in Morris, Minn. All 34 of my students were dear to me, but Mark Eklund was…

We often learn the most from our children. Some time ago, a friend of mine punished his 3-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was tight,…

John Blanchard stood up from the bench,straightened his Army uniform, and studied the crowd of people making their way through Grand Central Station. He looked for the girl whose heart…

The brand new pastor and his wife, newly assigned to their first ministry, to reopen a church in urban Brooklyn, arrived in early October excited about their opportunities. When they…

For gas station clerk Nueng Garcia, it was just another day on the job until he noticed the name of one man who paid with a check. "Are you John…

Back in the fifteenth century, in a tiny village near Nuremberg, lived a family with eighteen children. Eighteen! In order merely to keep food on the table for this mob,…