Proof The Bible Is True

Elephants were my daughter Andrea’s favorite.   Wherever we traveled, we brought back a little elephant souvenir. She arranged them all in her room. One day they were joined by a big picture of a sunflower.   “I just love this picture,” Andrea said as she hung it over her bed. “It reminds me of the sun even when I’m indoors.” I didn’t need a flower to remind me. Andrea was my sunshine.   When she died at 19 in a boating accident, I felt like she took all the warmth in my life with her. On the five-year anniversary, [More]

Shirley Miller of Pittsburgh had received a phone call from her brother in Phoenix, which had left her alarmed and upset. “Our 96-year-old mother was in the hospital, and wasn’t expected to live much longer,” Shirley says. “The family was gathering, and I needed to fly out as soon as possible.”   Fortunately she was able to find a seat on a flight later that day. A friend took her to the airport and dropped her in front of her airline checkpoint. So far, so good. But when she arrived at the security line, her heart sank. Passengers were in [More]

As my friend Meg was driving to her niece’s wedding, she realized her mother would have been 80 years old on this day, had she lived. Meg was filled with loss and grief. My friend is deeply spiritual, sensitive, intuitive. She knew it was silly, but she wished for a sign that the spirit of her mother was at the wedding, watching her grandchild’s big day. I don’t know if she prayed for it, but the longing certainly was there.   Read More: A Gift of Love from Beyond – Guideposts

I’ve been a “water bug” for as long as I can remember. My dad taught me to swim when I was 10 years old, and I’ve been swimming almost every day since. When I was in my 40s my teenage son taught me to bodysurf. The idea is to catch a large wave at its crest. Just as it foams over, you flop on your stomach with your arms stretched out in front and ride that wave to the shore for all it’s worth. There’s no thrill like it.   In 1990 my husband, Donald, and I were vacationing in [More]

01/01/23 Michael Boldea, grandson of Demitru Duduman is now writing daily blog posts which are always a good read. Check them out! Read The Latest30 Here 

Just a few more minutes and school would be over for the day.   I packed up my books and straightened my uniform, the same one worn by every girl at Blessed Sacrament Catholic School in St. Louis, Missouri. Finally the bell rang. “Bye, Sister,” I called as I passed her at the door.   I followed the crowd down the hall, jostled and carried along to the front door. Once outside I ran down the steps and over to the church, where I waited for my father to pick me up.   Inside it was quiet and peaceful. Statues [More]

Going back to school for my accounting degree would be good for my five-year-old daughter in the long run, but for now it kept me from spending time with her.   So in the free minutes I did have I made sure Georgia came first. We played “Lion King,” her favorite game, with a play set of figurines from the movie. Timon, the funny meerkat, was her favorite.   One Saturday afternoon I studied in the yard while Georgia shuffled through the fall leaves with her figurines. The darkness snuck up on us.   “Mommy,” Georgia said, “Timon is missing!” [More]

Everything in my life was falling into place. I’d found David, the man of my dreams. We had just gotten married and moved to Hays, Kansas, where David was president of Hadley Regional Medical Center.   One Friday afternoon I went to the medical center for an appointment. David promised me a romantic lunch when I was done. It was just a follow-up to my annual physical. My regular doctor had noticed symptoms that might indicate multiple sclerosis, and he recommended an MRI to rule it out.   After the MRI, David and another doctor were waiting for me. Something’s wrong, [More]

My baby sister, Rachel, had respiratory syncytial virus, which made it very difficult for her to breathe. My parents had to watch her every second. One night I awoke after midnight to an extraordinary sight   Read More: Kids and Angels – Guideposts

I tossed and turned in bed next to my husband.   I hadn’t slept much in the two weeks since our third daughter, Katie, died in a drunk-driving accident. My days were a haze. Painful thoughts consumed me. How could she have done it? Could I have stopped her?   Before the accident, I’d thought my second daughter was the one I had to worry about. She was going through a rough patch and her six-year-old daughter, Alana, stayed with me or her other grandmother most days. Would life ever be alright again? It seemed impossible. My bedroom door creaked [More]

There were two rules at the summer camp I attended in 1945: Don’t leave the Marwedel camp boundaries and don’t go off alone.   I was breaking both rules as I wandered through the redwood trees of Mendocino County, California, but getting in trouble was nothing new for me. With my bad grades, bad attitude and bad language, a lot of people considered me a lost cause.   “Watch out for Henry Petereit,” the principal of my grammar school had written to the junior high principal who would inherit me in the fall. “He’ll be in San Quentin by the [More]

It was a hot summer day in Atlanta… and we were locked out.   There’s nothing hotter than summer in Atlanta, especially if you can’t afford an air conditioner. My wife, Rebekah, and I couldn’t that year, and living on the third floor of an old building, the heat seemed to turn our apartment into an oven.   “Let’s get out of here,” Rebekah said one scorching Friday afternoon. “Why don’t we go down to the mall and enjoy their air conditioning?”   So that’s what we did. We cooled off sipping iced tea before ambling back. Maybe it was [More]

Every mother expects flowers on Mother’s Day. I’d sent a bouquet to my mom and mother-in-law, but there would be no flowers for me.   For years my husband and I had tried to have a baby, but we had never been able to conceive. Mother’s Day was hard. Community Newsletter Get More Inspiration Delivered to Your Inbox   I grabbed my keys to run some errands. “Please, God, help me through this day. Help me feel loved in spite of…” I couldn’t finish the sentence.   Read More: My Mother’s Day Angel – Guideposts

I’m still convinced to this day that voice I heard was no stranger…   I’ve never been one to take a nap in the afternoon, especially because I have two very active sons. I was always too worried that if I didn’t keep a constant eye on them, they might get into trouble.   But one afternoon I was completely exhausted after finishing a long workout at the YMCA. I lay back on the couch, watching my two-year-old playing quietly next to me. I must have dozed off because moments later I was startled awake by a voice loudly saying, [More]

12/19/22 After years of research, Israeli archaeologists have deciphered inscriptions on stone tablets found in Jerusalem that support the existence of the 8th century B.C. biblical King Hezekiah. The inscriptions mention Hezekiah’s name and list some of his greatest accomplishments, including the construction of pools and tunnels and the conquest of Philistia. Parts of the inscriptions can be found today inside the Siloam Tunnel, in the City of David in Jerusalem, where they have been since they were made there 2,731 years ago. Prof. Gershon Galil, the head of Haifa University’s Institute for Biblical Studies and Ancient History, deciphered the [More]

Stephen Baldwin and Kevin Sorbo star in The UnMiracle, an edgy, character-driven film with a positive Christian message that finds the blessings in life’s tragedies and has the courage to ask the question “Why doesn’t God answer my prayers?” The UnMiracle tells in seven interweaving story lines how a small town reacts to the accidental drug overdose of a popular high school girl. The film is inspired by the true life events of the filmmaker’s little sister who accidentally overdosed at a party and through God’s grace his family was brought back together. Sometimes, you have to be lost before [More]

In search of her estranged husband, a mother brings her three children to Los Angeles, California. They become homeless beggars while wandering the streets, but everything changes when the struggling family meets a Christian missionary.

Dove Review “One More Round” is an enjoyable movie that is much more than just a film about boxing—it is about life! Jake Taylor (Tommy Lee Thomas) hasn’t been a fighter for ten years, having not shown up for the biggest fight of his life just before he called it quits. These days life is knocking him around as his marriage is on the rocks and his mother-in-law encourages his wife to leave him. He earns a big commission at work, which he needs to save his home, but his boss cheats him out of it. He is about to [More]

Matthew was born with a silver spoon in his mouth that allows him to obtain his degree in theology from Harvard and land a sweet and lucrative pastoral gig that gives him freedom to recreate to his heart’s content. His new $74,000 Cadillac, which he dubs “White Lightning” is the pride of his considerable possessions. Matthew is also proud of his very upscale church in Tennessee. When God sends him a dream in the night, he has to reconsider his priorities in life. The nocturnal vision leads him to a local faith based drug/alcohol rehab center operated by Mission Teens. [More]

9-year-old Brian (Rowan Smyth) has a supernatural encounter with God, an experience that sends him on an adventurous quest to find out more about what Christians believe. He faces heavy opposition from the world around him, especially from his own father Simon (Matt Lindquist), an atheist tv newscaster. Brian finds allies in the pastor of a local church (Wilford Brimley) and a wounded U.S. Marine (Jeremy London). Brian’s pure and innocent faith brings about manifestations of God s extraordinary power that quickly become breaking news. Don’t miss out on this miracle packed adventure! WONDERFUL! INSPIRING!! The Dove Foundation (5 Doves-Faith [More]

Stranger Story tells three tales of everyday people’s lives who are affected by an encounter with a modern day Jesus, taken from New Testament accounts of The Woman at the Well, Mary and Martha and the concept of being salt. Directors: Shane Sooter, Jefferson Moore Writers: Chris Chiarot, Jefferson Moore Starring: Stephanie Vickers, Christina Karis, Amy Hess, Jefferson Moore

TAKE TWO is a true story of a man named Robert and his daughter Kristi. As a decadent Hollywood film producer who bottoms out in Los Angeles and loses everything, he continues to wake up every morning to his same failed life. He decides to leave LA to seek a new life, only to quickly realize he has taken himself with him. In the beginning of his trek he meets a beautiful young woman in a bar in Wyoming and has a one night affair that leads to the birth of a baby girl. He later discovers that he is [More]

Just a few final touches and my paper was finished.  I glanced at the clock on the wall in the kitchen: 6 a.m. Just in time. I hit save and turned off the computer. “Kids!” I called. “Time to get dressed for school!”   Don’t yell, Kathryn! I reminded myself as I tiptoed past my bedroom door. You’ll wake up Bob. My husband was an accountant who’d just survived an especially hectic tax season. He needed his sleep.   Normally I didn’t mind keeping the house running and seeing to the children on my own this time of year, but [More]

Just a few more things to do on the computer before bed. I glanced down at my feet, expecting to see Mocha, our chocolate Lab. But the floor was empty. Mocha was gone.   For 12 years he’d been my constant companion. Although Mocha was “my dog,” Hazel, my wife, loved him just as much. Mocha and I played catch with a Frisbee and explored the woods near our rental house in Rockport, Massachusetts.   When I let Mocha off his lead in the woods he rushed around, sniffing everywhere, digging into the dirt and flinging himself into stinky vernal [More]

Maybe a 1986 Mercury station wagon wasn’t the best vehicle to drive across the Mojave Desert, but it was all I had. And I won’t have it for long, I thought as my engine coughed and sputtered. God, just let me make it to the next town.   I’d left my teaching job back in Colorado and was going to San Francisco to stay with my sister Joyce for a while. I packed my clothes, my books and my old guitar into the back of the Mercury and headed off.   I’d first taught myself to play folk music as [More]

The sky was blue, the sun was warm. A perfect summer day for hiking. Atop 13,507-foot Mount Ypsilon, where my husband, Wes, and I had just eaten a packed lunch of sandwiches, apples and fruitcake, the view extended for mile after glorious mile of snowcapped Rocky Mountain peaks.   It was Friday, the day Wes and I hiked together each week. Mount Ypsilon was one of our favorite routes. We’d climbed it at least three times in the 41 years we’d lived in Colorado, where Wes had taught geology at the University of Colorado and I’d worked as a nurse. [More]

Boxes filled the bedroom. We had only days to go before my daughter, J.J., and I had to move.   But I was having second thoughts. Downstairs, the front door slammed and J.J. called up to me. “Mama,” she said. “Guess what? I saw another angel today!”   I wasn’t too surprised. With all the time J.J. spent at the little church next door to our house, angel sightings had become a common occurrence.   Although she was an adult, J.J. had Down syndrome, so there weren’t many places she could go on her own. At our church, I knew [More]