Missions Sunday: The day when churches honor the missionaries they support. The day when flags of two dozen nations are paraded into the sanctuary. The day of the interminable slideshows. And, at my (Jim's) chu...

1. "Family Guy"2. "Tosh.0"3. "House"4. "NCIS"5. "The Office"6. "Duck Dynasty"7. "The Big Bang Theory"8. "Two and a Half Men"9. "Sons of Anarchy"10. "MythBusters"(The list looks a bit different when Facebook sep...

A group of precocious but considerate teens spent their lunch hour trying to hack into a nearby ATM in Montreal, Canada, but when the 14-year-olds succeeded in doing so, they promptly marched to the bank to let...

Children raised by controlling, overbearing parents are more likely to use marijuana than those of parents who rely more on reason and persuasion, according to a new study conducted across six European countrie...

There was a bevy of good news in the new National Youth Risk Behavior Survey, released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but every silver lining seems to have a cloud.The survey, in which more ...

If you were born before 1980, you may remember a series of TV ads in the 1990s where actress Sally Struthers narrated heart-wrenching images of starving children, in a plea for viewers to sponsor those kids.If ...

In Him and through faith in Him we may approach God with freedom and confidence (Eph. 3:12).What is it in us that makes us lack confidence? What is inside of us that makes us so awkward sometimes? We have troub...

Commencements are wonderful, but they're just too long. We sit at yet another one, knowing that this is good ministry, constantly thinking about the more productive ministries we could be doing while the speake...

On May 25, 13-year-old Malavath Poorna became the youngest girl ever to scale the world's highest mountain. Her trek up the 29,035-foot Mount Everest didn't come without its difficulties, of course—beginn...

Advertising for e-cigarettes has exploded in recent years, and many of those ads are targeting youth. According to a report in Pediatrics, teens' exposure to e-cig advertisements shot up 256 percent between 201...