Let Your Life Story End With Rescue By Christ

by Kevin Burton    What if God made baseball cards for us, but they weren’t about baseball? What if they were about our walk as a Christian?    Christian cards?    If you wanted to capture my childhood in a handful of images, one image would surely be of baseball cards.  I still have all …

Baby Elsie Steals The Show At Movie Theatre

by Kevin Burton    Talk about making an entrance!    Molly Connah was one day past her due date, and seated comfortably in a movie theatre when her baby daughter decided the time was right for her earthly debut.    Details now from BBC reporter Antonia Matthews:    “A woman gave birth in a cinema …

Be Amazed By These Two Feline Survivors

by Nathan Frederick Good News Network    Two cat tales today, one of fire, one of water.    A mechanical issue started a fire in a Utah apartment building recently that sent the entire five-story structure ablaze in a matter of minutes.    Residents in the Salt Lake City suburb—and their pets—were evacuated from the …

How To Help Others Through Life’s Burdens

by Dr. Charles Stanley    It’s hard to watch someone you care about struggle against a heavy load, particularly when you’re not sure how to help.    Maybe it’s a friend suffering from a chronic illness, a coworker in a painful family situation, or someone at church quietly struggling with loneliness—these trying circumstances can grieve …

Twice Born, One Woman, Thank You Mom

by Kevin Burton     Fellow Christians, you’ve heard some stupid things no doubt, as you have tried to witness to unbelievers.  Try this one on for size.    Once while I was working as an English teacher in Mexico, I tried to witness to a supervisor. We were off the job, a few of us …

How To Love Others As Christ Loves Us

by Dr. Charles Stanley    To love as Christ loves us is a worthy desire.    And it sounds simple enough—until you’re faced with someone who’s hurt you, exhausted you, or simply rubbed you the wrong way. In those moments, selfless love can feel impossible.    The Lord is very concerned about how believers live …

Restaurant’s Generosity Sends Worker To Yale

by Nathan Frederick Good News Network    A powerful portion of ‘the American dream’ was served by a fast-food restaurant in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to help out one of its own.    Thalles DeSouza’s story may have started in a treacherous neighborhood near Rio de Janeiro, but his next chapter will be written at one …

Reading To Mom From “The Blue Book”

 by Kevin Burton    We called it the Blue Book, and it was/is a gift from God, via Grand Rapids.    There was a season, still very fresh in memory, when my mother, having slowly lost most of her abilities, was bedridden, periodically quite discouraged, badly in need of comfort.    Toward the end of …

Rescue, Restoration After Colombian Quake

by Kevin Burton    A young boy has his mother back. From the jaws of tragic loss, comes delicious, unspeakable joy.    A 7.4 magnitude earthquake hit Colombia Aug. 10. Since then we’ve read stories with updates on the death toll, the number of people missing and damage to buildings. But one story grabbed me …

Open The Door To Jesus, It Opens From Within

by Kevin Burton    Jesus is the all-powerful Son of God. There is no door in Heaven or on earth that he can not open.    In fact, shortly after His resurrection, Jesus passed through a locked door to join a meeting of His disciples. You can read about that in John 20:19. (That’s a …