The famous 19th century missionary to China, Hudson Taylor, once shared some powerful words that apply well to the situation we’re facing in our world today…

Little 5-year-old Johnny was in the kitchen as his mother made supper one evening. So she asked him to go into the pantry and get her a can of tomato soup. But he didn’t want to go in alone. “It’s dark in there and I’m scared,” he told her.

Chuck Swindoll tells a story about how years ago a man went into a fried chicken place and bought a couple of chicken dinners for himself and his date.

When the great scientist from the 1800s, Sir Michael Faraday was at the end of his life, he gave a final interview with some journalists who questioned him about life, and his speculations about what would await him after death.

There’s a story about an African Muslim who decided to become a Christian. His friends, perplexed at his decision to turn his back on Islam and follow Jesus, asked him, “Why did you become a Christian?”

The British minister, W.E. Sangster, had a disease that caused progressive muscular atrophy, and began to lose his voice and mobility. Recognizing the end was near, he threw himself fully into writing and prayer.

A little girl named Heather was enjoying the church service one Easter Sunday, when the time came for the boys and girls to come to the front to hear the children’s sermon from the pastor. Heather confidently strolled to the front of the sanctuary, just as she did every Sunday.

An 8-year-old boy named Philip who had Down’s syndrome attended a Sunday school class at his church. The other boys and girls didn’t readily accept Philip but were slowly beginning to see him as part of their group thanks to the work of the teacher.

The long-time pastor of First Baptist Church Dallas, W.A. Criswell, once recalled a vivid dream in which he watched Christ being beaten just before His crucifixion.

On Memorial Day weekend in 2002, a barge pilot passed out and hit a bridge span of I-40 over the Arkansas River. The accident destroyed a 600-foot span of the bridge, and 14 unsuspecting people died as their cars and 18-wheelers dove over the edge of the missing span.