God Will Keep It
Wealthy benefactors in communities across the US have made an inspiring promise to students. If they get good grades throughout their thirteen ye...
Jesus Rescued Us
Two workers at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station desperately needed medical care. One had suffered a heart attack and the other was experienc...
Making Room for Others
Each year my family designs a custom wall calendar, but lately it’s getting a bit crowded. We decorate each month with our favorite photos ...
God’s Property
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word “property”? Your mind may go to a piece of real estate. But yo...
God Provides
My dear friend Sally wanted to give a birthday party for one of her friends. She knew her friend had been experiencing a tough time, and Sally de...
Recognizing Jesus
When Carlotta was young, she thought her mother had a remarkable gift for recognizing other people. But Carlotta’s mother was normal. It wa...
Distance ’Til Empty
My tired minivan has a digital readout with initials DTE: Distance ’Til Empy. It gives me a precise mileage countdown. Most newer cars thes...
Daring Selection
As Franco Zeffirelli prepared to film his critically acclaimed version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, he made a daring decision. He cho...
Unfounded Fears
“I love you. I’ll never leave you.” Julia saved her husband’s text message so she could read it whenever she was afraid. ...
Aristotle at the Table
Aristotle said that no one can be friends with a god. Why? Because friendship requires equality, and what god would step down from their heavenly...
Caring for the Oppressed
Josephine Butler, a prominent minister’s wife, found herself campaigning for the rights of women accused (often unjustly) of being “l...
Walking in Christ’s Light
Tim’s hotel room seemed extra dark at night. What if he got up at night and slipped and fell because he couldn’t see? But when Tim di...
Loving Our Neighbors
After a late summer thunderstorm ripped through our city, we had to deal with tree damage to our house plus a major cleanup of our leaf-and-branc...
Never Alone
Over the years, I’ve encouraged and prayed for many battling loneliness for various reasons: nursing home residents whose family members do...
Forever Faithful
The deadliest forest fire disaster in US history was the Peshtigo Fire in Northeast Wisconsin. It occurred on the same night as the better-known ...
Peace in the Release
Kayla’s brow furrowed as she shoved yet another slip of paper into an overstuffed box labeled “Give It to God” on all four side...
The Family of God
It was 1863. Edwin stood on a railroad platform in Jersey City. He watched as a young man was forced by crowds against a train car. The man dange...
When Life Is Unfair
In Charles Dickens’ classic novel Oliver Twist, the sickly Oliver is born in a workhouse, an institution notorious for exploiting the poor....
Looking Like Christ
As a child of the 1950s and 60s, I grew up in the era when “America’s pastime” was baseball. I couldn’t wait to go to the...
A Friend at Midnight
“Who can you call at midnight when everything has gone wrong?” This question shook me when I first heard it years ago. How ...
Sustained by God
My family and I brought my dad home from the hospital. He had a degenerative disease, and we were now adjusting to the new 24-hour medical routin...
To See and to Serve
“Sometimes in life we see things that we can’t unsee,” Alexander McLean told a 60 Minutes interviewer. The South Londoner was e...
Test of Our Faith
In 304 ad, the Roman emperor Maximian victoriously entered the city of Nicomedia. Parades were ordered as the city gathered to thank pagan gods f...
God, Our Safe Place
We’d been driving for fifteen hours, and it was late at night when a tornado alert jolted us to attention. The warning said we should take ...
