Help Each Other
When the basketball team from Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) took to the floor for the college basketball tournament, the fans in the stand...
More Than Family
Jon was installed as full professor in a prestigious college. His older brother David was pleased, but, as brothers do, he couldn’t resist ...
Convicted and Freed
I didn’t do it!” It was a lie, and I almost got away with it, until God stopped me. When I was in middle school, I was part of a grou...
God’s Generous Love
He’s known as the military man whose commencement speech about making your bed every day got 100 million views online. But retired Navy Sea...
Behind Prison Bars
A star quarterback in American football stepped onto a stage that wasn’t a sports stadium. He spoke to three hundred inmates in the Evergla...
Welcome Mat
Browsing through the doormats displayed in my local big box store, I noted the messages stamped on their surfaces. “Hello!” “HO...
Scripture Lovers
The beautiful bride, gripping her proud father’s arm, was poised to make her way to the altar. But not before the entrance of her thirteen-...
Clinging to God
When Joni Eareckson Tada speaks of Rika, she highlights her friend’s “deep, time-tested faith in God” and the endurance she&rsq...
Love in Action
The single mother lived next door to the older gentleman for more than five years. One day, concerned for her welfare, he rang her doorbell. &ldq...
Cleansing Confession
There’s a man people hire as they’re dying, paying him to show up at their funerals and reveal secrets they never shared while they w...
The Voice We Can Trust
While testing a new AI (artificial intelligence) search engine, New York Times columnist Kevin Roose became disturbed. During a two-hour conversa...
God Is in Control
Carol couldn’t understand why it was happening all at once. As if work wasn’t bad enough, her daughter fractured her foot in school, ...
Reflecting Christ’s Character
Two faces at the table stood out—one contorted by bitter anger, the other twisted in emotional pain. A reunion of old friends had just erup...
I’m Just the Driver
“Dad, can I spend the night with my friend?” my daughter asked, getting into the car after practice. “Honey, you know the answe...
Being Finishers in Christ
Barbara passed away before she could finish a sweater she was knitting for her great-grandson, Ethan. The sweater was entrusted to the hands of a...
A Child’s Hope
When my granddaughter Eliana was just seven, she saw a video at her school about an orphanage in Guatemala. She told her mom, “We have to g...
Visible Traces of Jesus
Scientists from a California university ran experimental molecular swab tests to identify the traits and lifestyle habits of individual cell phon...
The Beautiful One
For more than 130 years, the Eiffel Tower has stood majestically over the city of Paris, a symbol of architectural brilliance and beauty. The cit...
A Meaningful Hyphen
As I prepared for my mom’s celebration of life service, I prayed for the right words to describe her “hyphen years”—the y...
The Unseen King
Pilgrim is a musical based on The Pilgrim’s Progress, an allegory of the life of a believer in Jesus. In the story, all the unseen forces o...
Transforming Worship
Susy wept as she sat outside the hospital’s intensive care unit—waves of paralyzing fear sweeping over her. The tiny lungs of her two...
In Small Ways
When she was struck by cancer, Elsie was prepared to go home to heaven to be with Jesus. But she recovered, though the disease left her immobile....
Jesus Removes the Stain
“Are. You. KIDDING?!” I yelled, digging through our dryer looking for my shirt. I found it. And . . . something else. My white shirt ...
Really Live
Thousands of people prayed for Pastor Ed Dobson when he was diagnosed with ALS in 2000. Many believed that when they prayed in faith for healing,...
