Emphasis Preaching Journal

It had been a long and difficult case -- murder cases often were. But this one was especially tough. The victim had been a 30-year-old man who was the father of two young children. A gang member had broken into the house and, in the process of a robbery, had killed him. The youngest child, a 2-year-old boy, was asleep when it happened. But Tiffany, the 6-year-old daughter, had been awakened by the sound of breaking glass when the break-in occurred. She had stood at the top of the stairs and looked down as the 16-year-old boy stabbed her daddy time after time.