#storychanging
“Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to carry the message of hope and salvation to a lost and dying world.” Our assignment did not come to us via cassette tape, but it is real just the same. It can also sound as impossible as those missions assigned to the IMF team. However,…
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Mrs. White slammed the classroom door and sank against the hallway wall, pressing her fingers to her temples. Her principal, Mr. Davis, stopped and gave her a puzzled look. “Something wrong, Mrs. White?” She shook her head and mumbled toward the floor, “I’m beyond frustrated. I have explained the lesson so carefully every day this…
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Matt stood alone in the schoolyard, knees knocking but face set. An hour ago he had been part of the fun—until the fun turned ugly. The guys had decided mentally-challenged Robbie would be their target and had turned on the boy with adolescent vengeance. “C’mon, Matt! Retards don’t belong in our school! Help us, or…
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He’d learned to ignore the smirks and catcalls that followed him everywhere he went. People hated him and he understood why. He was a traitor. He’d sold out. Even his family was disgusted with him, but money was a captivating mistress. Even though the people he wanted to impress wouldn’t come near, his new friends…
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“These eggs don’t taste right,” Bill commented and laid down his fork. Stan frowned and looked for their waitress. “Yeah, the last time I ate here, something was off. Wonder if they got a new cook? This tastes bland.” A smiling waitress appeared at their table. “Everything okay here, gentlemen?” Bill shook his head. “This…
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-She believed God would heal her child. She prayed, she fasted, she begged—but her son died anyway. -He believed God would help him get out of the financial mess he was in. He claimed it, declared it—and went to prison. -They had faith that the terrorists would not come into their village. They prayed, they…
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“Why not? What’s wrong with it?” We’ve all heard or said that at least once. It’s usually in reference to someone’s conviction about doing or not doing something the other person thinks is fine. What follows is often an awkward pause and a fumbling for the right words. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were prepared for…
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They knew the moment they heard the king’s edict that this day would come. Tattletales couldn’t wait to cause trouble. Daniel’s three friends had done nothing to call attention to themselves except quietly obey God. But in the pagan world, obedience to God stands out like a red bulb on a Christmas tree. Trumpets blasted…
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Before the king’s edict, before the fiery furnace, Daniel had made a vow that he would not become like the idol-worshiping people who had captured him. Because the king had chosen him and his three friends as four of Babylon’s Promising Stars, he was offered the best the pagan world could produce. Delicacies from the…
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Hold it right there! We don’t bow down. We’re Americans. We’re independent. We bow to no one unless we take a knee to further our own agendas. We bow when we say we will bow. We’re the captains of our own ships, the navigators of our own destinies, the authors of our own stories. Aren’t…
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