Better Together
After another health setback, I feared the unknown and uncontrollable. One day, while reading a Forbes magazine article, I learned that scientist...
Welcome the Stranger
In Everything Sad Is Untrue, Daniel Nayeri describes his harrowing flight with his mother and sister from persecution through a refugee camp to s...
Walking in Jesus’ Shoes
What would it be like to walk in the shoes of royalty? Angela Kelly, the daughter of a dockworker and nurse, knows. She was also the official dre...
God’s Open Doors
At my new school near a large city, the guidance counselor took one look at me and placed me in the lowest performing English composition class. ...
God’s Wise Purposes
The United Kingdom brims with history. Everywhere you go, you see plaques honoring historic figures or commemorating sites where important events...
Prompted to Pray
A co-worker once told me that her prayer life had improved because of our manager. I was impressed, thinking that our difficult leader had shared...
In God’s Loving Hands
Soren Solkaer spent years photographing starlings and their breathtaking spectacle: murmurations, where hundreds of thousands of starlings move i...
Growing Up in Jesus
As a child, I viewed grown-ups as wise and incapable of failure. “They always know what to do,” I’d think. “One day, when...
Loving Like Jesus
He was loved by all—those were the words used to describe Don Guiseppe of Casnigo, Italy. Don was a beloved man who rode around town on an ...
Humility’s Perk
Like many teachers, Carrie devotes countless hours to her career, often grading papers and communicating with students and parents late into the ...
Motivated by Love
Jim and Laneeda were college sweethearts. They got married and life was happy for many years. Then Laneeda began to act strangely, getting lost a...
Jesus’ Blood
The color red doesn’t always naturally occur in the things we make. How do you put the vibrant color of an apple into a T-shirt or lipstick...
Loving Our Enemies
With the American Civil War spawning many bitter feelings, Abraham Lincoln saw fit to speak a kind word about the South. A shocked bystander aske...
I’ve Seen God’s Faithfulness
Although she finished first in her qualifying race, US speedskater Brittany Bowe gave up her chance to compete in the 500-meter event at the 2022...
God’s Transforming Word
When Kristin wanted to buy a special book for Xio-Hu, her Chinese husband, the only one she could find in Chinese was a Bible. Although neither o...
God’s Great Love Cycle
As a new believer in Jesus at the age of thirty, I had lots of questions after committing my life to Him. When I started reading the Scriptures, ...
Brought Low
Pride precedes and often leads to humiliation—something a man in Norway found out. Not even dressed in running clothes, the individual arro...
Angels on the Walls
When Wallace and Mary Brown moved to an impoverished part of Birmingham, England, to pastor a dying church, they didn’t know that a gang ha...
Surrendering to God
Born on a farm, Judson Van DeVenter learned to paint, studied art, and became an art teacher. God, however, had a different plan for him. Friends...
Extending Dignity
Maggie’s guest showed up in church shockingly dressed. No one should have been surprised though; her young friend was a prostitute. Maggie&...
Rewired by Gratitude
After being diagnosed with a brain tumor, Christina Costa noticed how much of the talk around facing cancer is dominated by the language of fight...
Gifted with Love
On her wedding day, Gwendolyn Stulgis wore the wedding dress of her dreams. Then she gave it away—to a stranger. Stulgis believed a dress d...
Deep Friendship in Christ
There’s a monument in the chapel of Christ’s College, Cambridge, dedicated to two seventeenth-century physicians, John Finch and Thom...
All-Star Humility
After a game, a college basketball star stayed behind to help workers throw out empty cups and food wrappers. When a fan posted a video of him in...
