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It is often difficult to confirm the accuracy of a story, including this one printed in the Christian Digest and cited in a collection of stories assembled by Paul Tan. It wouldn’t surprise me to find it is accurate, but in any case the point of the story is a valid one, and I have seen it illustrated in less dramatic ways in my own life and in the speaking ministries of others.

Parents have to balance their responsibility to govern their children’s lives with their teenagers’ need to develop independence and freedom. Parents have to maintain that tension. 



I had mixed feelings about this movie.

The Hubble Deep Field North image, referred to Chapter 43 of Randy Alcorn’s Heaven book.

The John Piper book When I Don’t Desire God: How to Fight for Joy is good.  Also good is John Piper’s book When the Darkness Does Not Lift, available online from the Desiring God website.

The most striking thing that’s happened,” she said, “is that I find myself totally uninterested in all the conversations about material things.

When logic would tell you the church would not be able to grow under government restrictions, it has grown at a phenomenal rate.

Chapter 1 excerpt from The Grace and Truth Paradox by Randy Alcorn 

Recommended books on Heaven for children.

I would agree that our salvation is not based on our works.

A big one is the degree to which explicitly spiritual content can or should be woven into a story.

You asked about the use of the Hebrew word for day—yom. First, let’s go back and list a few hermeneutical principles, then apply them.