For years preachers have used the Dead Sea as an illustration of the importance of giving back. The have made the point that the Dead Sea receives but has no outlet to give to and that is what makes it dead. Now it no longer even receives. We have a new...

Robert Shannon tells the story of the Waldensians, a small Protestant group greatly persecuted in Europe in the seventeenth century. In 1686 they were exiled to Switzerland where they remained until 1689. Then they crossed the mountains, going 128 miles in 8 days over...

A teenager came out of the church service and began to complain to her friends. "That sermon was way to long," she said, before realizing the preacher was right behind her. Trying to dig herself out of the hole she had dug she tried again; "Well, I guess it...

Michaelangelo started forty-four statues, but completed only fourteen. In a museum in Italy, you can see his thirty unfinished works. There are huge chunks of marble with only a hand, or a foot, or a leg completed. Are our lives like...