A Modern-Day Paul
George Verwer’s life changed dramatically when he became a follower of Christ during a Billy Graham crusade in 1957. Soon after his convers...
Being Still Before God
I love the idea of stillness. Of quiet. Of resting in the refuge of God’s care (Psalm 46:1). And an often-quoted passage from Psalm 46 teac...
The Bible’s Cherished Words
My dad carried his beloved Bible for more than thirty years before the worn binding finally split in two. When we took it to a book binder for pr...
God’s Own
One day, while serving as my mom’s live-in caregiver, we visited an art exhibit. We were emotionally and physically drained. I gazed at two...
Joy in Jesus
“I have the right to be happy,” said a teenager as she spoke before a legislature. Yet she could have been anyone anywhere, speaking ...
Dressed by the Holy Spirit
Two eight-year-old boys in Maine—a rural American state—made their mark by wearing business suits to school on Wednesdays. Soon &ldqu...
God-Given Skills and Talents
Some of the most famous pianists in the world, including Van Cliburn and Vladimir Horowitz, relied on Franz Mohr, chief concert technician at Ste...
Making Peace in Jesus
High-wire artist Philippe Petit became famous in 1971 when he walked a tightrope between the towers of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Three years...
Intervals of Rest
Running coach Jeff Galloway, a former Olympian, teaches a marathon training protocol that has a counterintuitive component to it. New and experie...
Revered and Read
Our home has a well-stocked, overflowing bookshelf. I have a weakness for beautiful books, especially nice hardcovers, and over the years more an...
Made to Do Good for God
At first, I ignored the card fluttering to the ground. The father and his little girl who dropped it were just twenty feet away, and I was late f...
A New Heart in Christ
Elephant Helpers
Late one night, a Kenyan elephant sanctuary received a call that an elephant calf had fallen into a well. The rescue team arrived to cries of des...
Heirs of God’s Salvation
When Abigail’s parents died tragically in a car accident, she inherited a large real estate portfolio. She also learned that her parents ha...
Working Together for Jesus
During a trip to Brazil with a short-term missions team, we helped construct a church building in the Amazon jungle. The foundation had already b...
Resting in Christ
Several years ago, a study analyzed the link between teenage depression and the amount of sleep teens received each night. After reading the stud...
The List Is Life
Hunched over a manual typewriter, Itzhak Stern worked through the night, tapping out names—1,098 in all. The names comprised a list of Jewi...
Give Your Worries to Jesus
Nancy feared the future, seeing only trouble. Her husband Tom had fainted three times during a hiking trip in rural Maine in 2015. But doctors at...
Not Easily Offended
When I entered my church after several months of quarantine, I was excited to see members I hadn't seen in a while. I realized that some members,...
Unfathomable God
In February 2023, the James Webb Space Telescope made another remarkable discovery. Beyond where humankind had previously been able to peer into ...
Reading, Writing, and Jesus
Moses with horns? That’s the way he’s depicted in Michelangelo’s masterpiece sculpture completed in 1515. Two horns protrude fr...
Extending God’s Love
One winter day in Michigan, a delivery man noticed an elderly woman shoveling snow off her driveway. He stopped and convinced the eighty-one-year...
Jesus—Our Place of Rest
In 1943, a camp in rural Maryland called Shangri-La was purchased as a retreat for US President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Rustic, quiet, and remote,...
Understanding the Bible
How important is the Bible? It’s so vital that people in many countries risk their lives to translate it into their native languages. Often...
