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...
Ripe for God’s Restoration
The pictures coming from a friend’s text stream were stunning! Photos of a surprise gift for his wife revealed a restored 1965 Ford Mustang...
The Meaning of Myrrh
Today is Epiphany—the event described by the carol “We Three Kings of Orient Are.” It’s the time when Gentile wisemen vis...
God at the Crossroads
After days of illness and then spiking a high temperature, it was clear my husband needed emergency care. The hospital admitted him immediately. ...
Quiet Faithfulness in Christ
I didn’t notice him at first. I’d come down for breakfast at my hotel. Everything in the dining room was clean. The buffet table...
Spotting Hope
Oceanographer Sylvia Earle has seen the deterioration of coral reefs firsthand. She founded Mission Blue, an organization devoted to the developm...
The Son Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway’s first full-length novel features hard-drinking friends who have recently endured World War I. They bear the scars, liter...
New Identity in Jesus
“I’m not who I once was. I’m a new person.” Those simple words from my son, spoken to students at a school assembly, desc...
The Righteous City
On New Year’s Eve 2000, officials in Detroit carefully opened a hundred-year-old time capsule. Nestled inside the copper box were hopeful p...
Troubled Souls, Honest Prayers
Three days before a bomb blast rocked his home in January 1957, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had an encounter that marked him for the rest of his l...
The Crown of Life
A twelve-year-old named LeeAdianez Rodriguez-Espada was worried that she’d be late for a 5K run (just over 3 miles). Her anxiousness led he...
Meeting the Needs of Others
Phillip’s father suffered from severe mental illness and had left home to live on the streets. After Cyndi and her young son Phillip spent ...
