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A California company is offering clients interested in space travel, the opportunity to rest in peace on the moon. For a fee of $12,000, Elysium Space will privately transport a person’s cremated remains to the moon. They are currently taking orders, and the first batch of ashes will travel to the moon…

In “Serving the Right Master,” C. Les Wesley writes, “In that moment, it was clear I had the two things of real value with me: my wife and my unborn daughter. Hurricane Katrina would not destroy anything that could not later be rebuilt. Oh, I would miss our possessions and the pictures that would be…

In The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, “Suffering, then, is the badge of true discipleship.” —Jim L. Wilson Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship, 91. Philippians 3:10 (HCSB) My goal is to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed…

A British paintball company says they were surprised by the number of applicants for a job post they put up. The company is looking for a ‘bullet tester’ with a ‘relatively high pain threshold’ and has received about 10,000 applicants. They are looking for a person willing to be shot at to ensure that…

Some might say the Fulton, Mississippi couple was lucky, but if you ask Joseph Gale and his wife Dionne, they believe the reason they survived an encounter with a logging truck was divine intervention. The Gales were driving along the highway when a truck carrying a load of logs flipped over in the opposite…

Jill Costello was finishing her junior year at the University of California. Just before heading home for summer vacation, she discovered she was in the last stages of lung cancer. Her doctors gave her 9 months to live. Her support network was the Cal crew team where she was a coxswain. They had just…

When Marvin Olasky moved to a new home in Asheville, North Carolina, he was not aware of the presence of poison ivy on his new property. Soon he was itching, blistering, oozing, and miserable enough to see the Doctor. The doctor prescribed 12 days of prednisone pills, one of the side effects is insomnia.…

A new motion picture depicting the life of a teenage surfer who lost an arm in a shark attack has a powerful message about faith in the face of suffering. The film, ‘Soul Surfer” tells the story of champion Surfer Bethany Hamilton. Hamilton lost her arm at age 13. The film follows her struggle and her…

I do not know how blessed Christians in Iraq feel right now, but they are enduring a tremendous time of persecution. During Mass at Baghdad’s Our Lady of Salvation Church, five or six gunmen burst into the building and set off two suicide vests filled with ball bearings. “The remaining gunmen took some…

Two men who The Ohio Highway Patrol honored as heroes for rescuing a woman from her burning car have now decided to sue her, claiming they suffered physical and emotional injury during the rescue. David Kelley and Mark Kincaid were driving a truck in southeast Ohio when they saw debris on the road and…

Terry, Maria and Zachary were living lives straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting. It wasn’t that life had always been easy for them, it hadn’t. Terry was a cancer survivor who’d flown in and out of dangerous places all over the world, but all of that was in their rear-view mirror. Life was good.…

A Spiritual Wimp I never really related to "doubting" Thomas. Spiritually speaking, he was a wimp. Me? I always thought of myself as "a man of God" with granite--like faith. But then came the Spring of '96. Within a month of watching my little sister's casket lowered into the ground I was diagnosed with…

For those who saw replays of the pitch, it is unforgettable. Pitching for the Giants and leading 3-1 in the bottom of the sixth inning, Dave Dravecky delivered his 69th pitch of the night. It was the last pitch he would ever make with that left arm. The bone broke in mid pitch and he fell to the ground…

SUFFERING In his book, Seasons under the Son, Tim Wesemann wrote, "The Bible tells us that he [the leper] came back praising Jesus and thanking Him. It doesn't say exactly what the man said to Him, although it seems obvious that he would have given thanks for healing. But let's take it a step further.…

Trials “Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?" Job 2:10 NLT I used to think that life alternated between good and bad times—seasons of adversity and prosperity, and I suppose you could make a strong case that I was right. But lately I’ve started to think that…

HELP Two lost hikers survived three nights in the San Jacinto Mountains of California after they stumbled on the campsite of a man who disappeared a year ago. Brandon Day and Gina Allen were rescued when searchers spotted smoke from a fire the couple started using matches scavenged from a backpack they…

Why Me? "How can a loving God do this to me?" I've asked Him the question before, and He's never taken the time to answer me. Others have asked me the question, and I've never known how to answer them. Whenever a controversy arose in the early church, the church fathers got together and wrote a creed.…

How Can I Believe? At my little sister's funeral, people tried to comfort me with statements of faith like, "At least she's not suffering any more," or "She's in a better place." Though these people were right theologically, their words didn't touch my pain. My tears were not because of where she was,…

Hole in the Head Try as she might, Janet couldn't focus. She tried to listen as Dan explained to her what it meant to be a Christ follower and how she could have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, but she just couldn't get it. But she didn't give up. She returned week after week to the "New Beginnings"…

PAIN New scientific research indicates there is differences in the way people handle pain. Whether someone is wimp or a stoic may be due to a variation in a single gene that determines a person’s tolerance of pain. The gene helps regulate how many natural painkillers, known as endorphins, the body produces.…

God's Anointed "So Miriam was shut up outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until Miriam was received again." Numbers 12:15 NASB For an entire week the children of Israel stood still. They made no progress in their journey. They didn't break down their tents and they didn't…