Fully Surrendered to Christ
In 1920, John Sung, the sixth child of a Chinese pastor, received a scholarship to study at a university in the United States. He graduated with ...
Jesus Our King
While drilling for oil in one of the sunniest and driest countries in the world, teams were shocked to uncover a huge underground system of water...
Sharing by Caring
The young pastor prayed every morning, asking God to use him that day to bless someone. Often, to his delight, such a situation arose. One day du...
God’s Gift of Grace
As I was grading another stack of papers for a college writing class I teach, I was impressed with one particular paper. It was so well-written! ...
Refreshing Words
Standing in the kitchen, my daughter exclaimed, “Mom, there’s a fly in the honey!” I quipped back with the familiar adage, &ldq...
No More Prejudice
Many years ago, Julie Landsman auditioned for principal French hornist for New York’s Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. The MET held their audi...
Strange Places
God, why is this happening? Is this really your plan for us? As a husband and a dad of young children, those questions and more swirled in m...
Quick to Listen
I felt my heartrate increase as I opened my mouth to refute the charges a dear friend was leveling against me. What I had posted online had nothi...
Scraps to Beauty
My wife, Miska, has a necklace and hoop earrings from Ethiopia. Their elegant simplicity reveals genuine artistry. What’s most astounding a...
The Right Focus
We’d known Kha for more than a year. He was part of our small group from church who met weekly to discuss what we’d been learning abo...
Drop by Drop
“In everything / we look for pleasant ways of serving God,” writes sixteenth-century believer Teresa of Avila. She poignantly reflect...
Calling Out to God
In his book Adopted for Life, Dr. Russell Moore describes his family’s trip to an orphanage to adopt a child. As they entered the nurs...
God’s Protective Love
One summer night, the birds near our home suddenly erupted into chaotic cawing. The squawking intensified as the songbirds sent piercing calls fr...
Washing Feet . . . and Dishes
On Charley and Jan’s fiftieth wedding anniversary, they shared breakfast at a café with their son Jon. That day, the restaurant was ...
Choosing to Follow God
“The average person will make 773,618 decisions over a lifetime,” claims the Daily Mirror. The British newspaper goes on to assert th...
Learning from Mistakes
To help avoid future financial mistakes, such as those in 1929 and 2008 that brought down the world’s economy, The Library of Mistakes was ...
Serving Others for Jesus
Actress Nichelle Nichols is best remembered for playing Lieutenant Uhura in the original Star Trek series. Landing the role was a personal win fo...
A Gaze Fixed on God
Nineteenth-century Scottish pastor, Thomas Chalmers, once told the story of riding in a horse-drawn carriage in the Highlands region as it hugged...
Persevering in Jesus
When I was studying in seminary years ago, we had a weekly chapel service. At one service, while we students were singing “Great is the Lor...
God’s Worker
In a refugee camp in the Middle East, when Reza received a Bible, he came to know and believe in Jesus. His first prayer in Christ’s name w...
A Simple Request
“Please clean the front room before you go to bed,” I said to one of my daughters. Instantly came the reply, “Why doesn&rs...
A Call to Prayer
Abraham Lincoln confided to a friend, “I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else t...
Love Beyond Counting
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” Those words from Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese are amon...
Willing Savior
While driving late at night, Nicholas saw a house on fire. He parked in the driveway, rushed into the burning home, and led four children to safe...
