Josh Benner

Tag: Inspiration

  • Heroic story of Arkansas truck driver making the ultimate sacrifice

    The word “hero” is so often thrown around to the point that it is often emptied of meaning. One Arkansas truck driver was most definitely a hero. Last week, Randall McDougal was driving a truck with ammonium nitrate (a fertilizer which is also highly explosive). While he was driving, there was a fire in his…

  • Incredible story: 13 year-old Jayme Closs escapes abductor, finds help 3 months after parents murdered

    I’ve read autobiographies of people who have survived the Holocaust and escaped form North Korea. They’re harrowing stories. They’re heartbreaking stories. But in another sense, they’re inspiring stories, because in them, you see the triumph of the human spirit. They’re inspiring because you see what people are capable of and what true toughness and grit…

  • Purdue super fan Tyler Trent passes away

    We don’t control the cards we’re dealt. All we can do is play what we have. Tyler Trent passed away on Tuesday. The Purdue student had battled a rare form of bone cancer. He had become a sensation in college football and Big Ten circles as being someone the Purdue football team rallied around this…

  • From nothing to a Navy SEAL: David Goggins and mental toughness

    I’ve been going through the new book “Can’t hurt me: master your mind and defy the odds” by David Goggins. I’m about halfway through the book, and I’ve really enjoyed it. Earlier this fall, I saw some interviews Goggins had done, and I was intrigued by his story, but the book gives so much more…

  • When we’re tempted to second guess God…

    I was going through Lee Strobel’s latest book The Case for Miracles last week. The final chapter in the book was a poignant discussion entitled: “When miracles don’t happen.” In that chapter, Strobel interviews Douglas Groothuis who’s a professor at Denver Seminary. In the interview, they talk about the health of Groothuis’s wife Becky, a…