Editorials

Some Of The World's best-loved stories have to do with transformations of character. In the Bible, people even get new names to symbolize the change: Jacob to Israel, Simon to Peter, Saul to Paul.

Christ Jesus has stood as the supreme example for millions of men and women for some twenty centuries. He is Master, Teacher, Saviour.

Our Indonesian friend spotted the carved mahogany statuette as we walked down a row of tent-like market stalls near Lake Toba in northern Sumatra. "Look!" she said.

Modern Medicine has come a good distance in its shift from a strictly physiological view of patients to one that includes mental factors. Unquestionably, the mind-body connection has garnered the serious attention of many of today's researchers and medical professionals.

Knowing you are a deeply loved child of God, and understanding why this is so, is an effective defense against whatever kind of injustice you're battling.

The Commonly Held View of the millennium asserts that, essentially, it constitutes a calendar period of one thousand years since the advent of Christ Jesus, and that we are presently concluding the second millennium. (And despite the popular notion, the new calendar millennium actually begins on January 1, 2001, not January 1, 2000.

In real life, Joseph's role couldn't have been easy. MARILYN WAS AN UNFORGETTABLE "Joseph" in the Christmas play at our all-girls' school.

Someone Once Told Me of a prayer for self-improvement that went something like this: "Lord, please make me the kind of man my dog thinks I am. " There's nothing like having a high goal.

At times , fear seems to have the power to paralyze people. No matter how hard they try, they may feel they just can't deal with some threat or danger.

When Keith was a boy, most of the adults who knew him probably thought he wasn't "all there. " He seemed to be a slow learner, living in a world of his own, generally unresponsive when he was around other people.