The Battle of Gettysburg, fought on July 1–3, 1863, was the turning point of the Civil War. Robert E. Lee's plan to invade the North and force an immediate end to the war failed. The little town of Gettysburg held no military significance, but several roads converged there. On June 30, 1863, advance cavalry elements of the Union Army began arriving at Gettysburg, and 7,000 Confederates were sent to investigate.

The following day the battle began in a place neither Lee nor his Union counterpart, General George Meade, would have chosen on purpose. It was almost as if the roads just happened to bring their armies to that point on the map.

As the Battle of Gettysburg developed on July 1st, the Union troops held a...

At approximately 10 p.m. on March 1, 1932, the Lindberghs' nurse, Betty Gow, found that 20-month-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was not with his mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, who had just come out of the bathtub. Gow then alerted Charles Lindbergh, who immediately went to the child's room, where he found a ransom note, containing bad handwriting and grammar, in an envelope on the windowsill. Taking a gun, Lindbergh went around the house and grounds with family butler, Olly Whateley; they found impressions in the ground under the window of the baby's room, pieces of a wooden ladder, and a baby's blanket. Whateley telephoned the Hopewell police department while Lindbergh contacted his attorney and ...

Even in the post-Christian era in which we live, most Christians know John 3:16. It is the single most familiar verse in the Bible.  Most Christians, however, are less familiar with John 3:17 which declares, "For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him." In contemporary English this verse says "God dispatched Jesus on a rescue mission from heaven.  His mission was to save sinners like us.  There will come a time when He will judge the living and the dead but during this advent He comes to save not to judge."

So that begs the question, “what does it mean to be saved?” We use the term saved quite a lot, don’t we? We speak...