How one organization is helping military members and their families in powerful healing ways. By Megan Cherkezian A Guideposts Featured Story Chuck Ziegenfuss was rushed back to the States after an improvised explosive device (IED) blew up three feet from where he was standing in Iraq in 2005. He was blown off the bridge he was standing on and into a canal. He lost his eardrums, half his left hand, his right thumb and…
(Another Inspirational story from Guideposts) In this excerpt from Robert J. Morgan’s book Angels: True Stories, an earth angel rids a children’s play area of rattlesnakes. By Robert J. Morgan When my friend Richard Hendrix was ten years old, he lived in the small coal-mining town of Carbon Hill, Alabama. The Hendrix home sat on the edge of a forest and had a spanning porch where his mother and grandmother worked peeling apples or snapping beans….
So,last time we looked at the expected years of life here on earth. We are “promised” to live from birth to age seventy (or 80), according to the Scriptures. However, many people, for one reason or another, don’t make it that long. Why not? Well, one needs to look at all the circumstances that are presented or that we are confronted with. While it is true that the “promise” is in effect, that enemy of…
I have attended a lot of funerals in the past few years — too many. Most of those persons were over 60 and died of “old age” — an over-used phrase. But some of them were youngsters. So, is there a “rule of thumb” on death and, if so, when should we expected it to occur? I know this topic will generate many opinions; let’s look at the Biblical perspective of life – birth &…
