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Many people have a hard time knowing what to say when they discover a friend has a serious illness. To help them find the right words, greeting card writer and designer Emily McDowell has created a new line of card she calls empathy cards. McDowell’s cards as so popular that she has had to hire ten new…

Firefighters in Bayton, Texas responded to a 911 call for a man who suffered a heart attack while mowing his lawn. After taking the man to the hospital, several members of the Department’s crew returned to the home to finish mowing the yard. Afterward, they put the mower away and locked the garage too.…

In Shattered Dreams, Patrick Mead writes, “Life is not about you and your dreams, shattered or otherwise. It is about God’s plan of redemption. A plan you get to be a part of when you accepted His precious gift of salvation. And a plan you get to participate in as you submit your shattered dreams to…

Sometimes comfort needs to be more than words. “The New York Times reports that touch is its own complicated, highly accurate, highly effective signaling system.” They interpret that to mean that high fives and sympathetic touches can say more than words. --Reader’s Digest, May 2010, p24 Illustration…

Jesus' last words show us His heart for a lost and dying world. Samuel Rutherford, theologian and Bible scholar in the 1600s, had this to say as he lay on his deathbed: "Mine eye shall see my Redeemer. He has pardoned, loved, and washed me, and given me joy unspeakable and full of glory. Glory shines…

In 1993, Lt. Col. Gary Morsch joined the Army Reserves as a doctor to care not only for U.S. soldiers, but also for wounded civilians and prisoners of war. In 2005, as a part of the war in Iraq, he was called up to serve as the field doctor for a battalion near the Iranian border. He would take care…

Fear Not Little Flock “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” - Luke 12:32 (ESV) Opposition, if it is intense and sustained enough, can sap people’s resolve and make their goals seem less important than perhaps they thought in the heady beginning. To say…

FIRST-PERSON: Since Betty Jo ... By Larry Lewis Feb 13, 2009 Larry Lewis EDITOR'S NOTE: Larry Lewis, president of the Southern Baptist Home Mission Board (now North American Mission Board) from 1987-97, penned these reflections a year after the death of his wife Betty Jo on Feb. 14, 2008. SAN DIEGO (BP)--On…

COMFORT Gerald Rodgers pastors a church in Fredericksburg, Virginia three days a week. The rest of week he oversees a group of chaplains serving in a corporate environment. Rodgers is part of growing group of chaplains who contract out to companies seeking to add a religious component to their employee…

The following story comes from Julie Helms in Christian Reader, Lite Fare: My husband and I, with our two daughters, operate a small sheep farm. One day a non-farming friend asked, "How can you bear to slaughter those cute little lambs?" My husband explained, "We don't want to get emotionally attached…

It was a wonderful/awful day in my life - the day my mother took my hand and walked me the two blocks over to Park Manor School in Chicago. It was the day I went to school for the first time. Kindergarten, here I come! It was exciting, but it was hard, too. We didn't do any pre-school stuff back then;…

Escalators Anyone? Acts 14:22 The following was taken from registration sheets and comment cards returned to the staff of the Bridger Wilderness Area in Wyoming in 1996: 1. Trails need to be wider so people can walk holding hands. 2. Trails need to be reconstructed. Please avoid building trails that…

– His father’s faith is evident in a consoling letter he wrote to his other son, soon after the composer’s untimely death. In it, the father exhorts him to “seek comfort in God, and to bear any affliction that may fall on us according to God’s wise dispensation with resolute submission to His holy will.…

After our seminary days, Joyce and I were called back to Florida to a fine little church in Fort Pierce. By this time we had three children – Stephen, Gayle and Phillip. Phillip was only two months old when we got settled in the new parsonage, nestled right next door to the little white cement-block…

Instead of the old kind of New Year's resolutions we used to make and break, let's make some this year and really try and keep them: 1. Try not to imagine the future; take one day at a time. 2. Allow yourself time to cry, both alone and with your loved ones. 3. Don't shut out other family members from…

“People with crippling shyness may soon be able to spritz themselves with a hormone that’ll make them relaxed and comfortable for that big business meeting or first date, says New Scientist. The hormone oxytocin has long been associated with social comfort. When researchers at the University of Zurich…

Unknown Author These are more effective than 911 When - You are sad, phone John 14 You have sinned, phone Psalm 51 You are facing danger, phone Psalm 91 People have failed you, phone Psalm 27 It feels as though God is far from you, phone Psalm 139 Your faith needs stimulation, phone Hebrews 11 You are…

According to a recent study by the World Health Organization and Harvard Medical School, America may very well be the saddest nation in the world. Researchers found that 9.6% of Americans suffer from depression or bipolar disorder—the highest among 14 major nations polled. Those nations that scored better…

Why does God bring thunderclouds and disasters when we want green pastures and still waters? Bit by bit we find behind the clouds, the Father's feet; behind the lightning, an abiding day that has no night; behind the thunder, "a still, small voice" that comforts with a comfort that is unspeakable. --Oswald…