God’s Wisdom Saves Lives
A mail carrier became concerned after seeing one of her customers’ mail pile up. The postal worker knew the elderly woman lived alone and u...
The Day after Christmas
After all the joy of Christmas Day, the following day felt like a letdown. We’d stayed overnight with friends but hadn’t slept well. ...
The Promise of Christ’s Birth
In November 1962, physicist John W. Mauchly said, “There is no reason to suppose the average boy or girl cannot be master of a persona...
The Christmas Star
“If you find that star, you can always find your way home.” Those were my father’s words when he taught me how to locate the No...
Fellowship in Jesus
I’m not sure who’s responsible for turning out the lights and locking up the church after our Sunday morning service, but I know one ...
Walls Torn Down, Unity Found
Since 1961, families and friends had been separated by the Berlin Wall. Erected that year by the East German government, the barrier kept its cit...
The Light of Hope
My mother’s shiny red cross should have been hanging next to her bed at the cancer care center. And I should have been preparing for holida...
Forgiveness and Forgetting
Jill Price was born with the condition of hyperthymesia: the ability to remember in extraordinary detail everything that ever happened to her. Sh...
Learning from Scars
Faye touched the scars on her abdomen. She had endured another surgery to remove esophageal-stomach cancer. This time doctors had taken part of h...
My God Is Near
For over thirty years, Lourdes, a voice teacher in Manila, had taught students face to face. When she was asked to conduct classes online, she wa...
Christmas Dilemma
David and Angie had felt called to move overseas, and the fruitful ministry that followed seemed to confirm it. But there was one downside to the...
Community in Christ
In the southern Bahamas lies a small piece of land called Ragged Island. In the nineteenth century it had an active salt industry, but because of...
Equal before God
While on vacation, my wife and I enjoyed some early morning bike rides. One route took us through a neighborhood of multi-million-dollar homes. W...
Appetite for Distraction
I set my phone down, weary of the constant bombardment of images, ideas, and notifications that the little screen broadcasted. Then, I picked it ...
Overcoming Trials
Anne grew up in poverty and pain. Two of her siblings died in infancy. At five, an eye disease left her partially blind and unable to read or wri...
Lean on God
While at a water park with some friends, we attempted to navigate a floating obstacle course made of inflatable platforms. The bouncy, slippery p...
God Is More than Enough
Ellen was on a tight budget, so she was glad to receive a Christmas bonus. That would have been enough. When she deposited the money, however, sh...
God Won’t Forget You
As a child, I collected postage stamps. When my angkong (Fukienese for “grandfather”) heard of my hobby, he started saving stamps fro...
Be the Church
During the days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dave and Carla spent months looking for a church home. Following health guidelines, which limited vario...
Prejudice and God’s Love
“You’re not what I expected. I thought I’d hate you, but I don’t.” The young man’s words seemed harsh, but th...
Giving like Christ
When American author O. Henry wrote his beloved 1905 Christmas story “The Gift of the Magi,” he was struggling to rebound from person...
Saint Nick
The person we know as St. Nicholas (St. Nick) was born around ad 270 to a wealthy Grecian family. Tragically, his parents died when he was a boy,...
God’s Comforting Commitment
Years ago, our family visited Four Corners, the only place in the United States where four states meet at one location. My husband stood in the s...
Shadow and God’s Light
When Elaine was diagnosed with advanced cancer, she and her husband, Chuck, knew it wouldn’t be long until she’d be with Jesus. Both ...
