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The Son of God

Recently, my brother Scott acquired our dad’s military service records from World War II. As I studied the pages, there was nothing startli...

Such Glorious Knowledge

Medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas endured much to dedicate himself to a life of seeking God. His family imprisoned him for a year in an attempt ...

Bring It to God

Brian had been with the heart specialist for more than an hour. His friend remained in the waiting room, praying for wisdom and healing for his a...

A Helping Hand

In the early 1900s, laws restricted Black people and immigrants in the US from renting or buying property in Coronado, California. A Black man na...

God Hears Her | Grace in Marriage (with Chelsea Damon)

Guest Bio: Chelsea Damon is the author of I Thought This Would Make Me Happy: How to Fight Less, Forgive Faster, and Cultivate Joy in Your Marria...

No Regrets

There was no mention made of the stuff we often spend our lives chasing. That’s what palliative care nurse Bronnie Ware discovered as she s...

Discover the Word | Beware False Teachers–A Study of Jude | Week 2

Though the fifth shortest book in the Bible, the letter of Jude is packed with mystery, theology, and important information. We want to take the ...

A Mom Looks Back

“I really didn’t like Mother’s Day,” said Donna, a mom of three. “It brought back to me all the inadequacies and fa...

Living with Full Faith

Thousands of people around the world prayed for Sethie’s three-year-old son, who’d been hospitalized for months. When doctors said Sh...

Love’s Great Surprise

In the classic sports fantasy film Field of Dreams, the character Ray Kinsella encounters his late father as an athletic younger man. Upon seeing...

Deeply Rooted in Christ

Beloved pastor Andrew Murray (1828-1917) shared how in his native South Africa, various diseases affect the orange trees there. To the unpractice...

Loving Others in Jesus

There’s a new game in high school sports, and it’s one of the most uplifting experiences you’ll ever see. It has many of t...

Humble Honor

As an elementary school teacher, my friend often escorted her students to various other classrooms for subjects such as music or art. When asked ...

God Hears Her | Building Community as a Mom (with Tara Edelschick and Kathy Tuan)

Guest Bio: Tara Edelschick is a teacher, a writer, mother of three, and grandmother. For three decades, she has worked as an educator, teaching p...

God of the Fresh Start

“The Merchant of Death is Dead!” That was the  headline for an obituary that may have caused Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynam...

Discover the Word | Beware False Teachers–A Study of Jude | Week 1

Though the fifth shortest book in the Bible, the letter of Jude is packed with mystery, theology, and important information. We want to take the ...

Lasting Joy

In 2014, residents of a village in Norway erected a traffic sign that encouraged people crossing the street to do so in a silly manner. The inten...

God’s Perspective

In 2018, pastor Tan Flippin had a cycling accident that landed him in the hospital with fractures to his hip. When the doctors ordered a CT scan ...

Salty Answers

Bert placed his debit card atop the restaurant bill. The waiter scooped it up and then paused to ask, “Wait, who is this guy who says &lsqu...

Listening for God’s Voice

In the early twentieth century, New York City had become a noisy place. An overhead train, cars, trolleys, newsboys yelling, and people rushing a...

Truly Trusting God

The stray cat mewed pitifully, stopping me in my tracks. I had just walked past a pile of food that someone had carelessly discarded on the groun...

Hopeless or Hopeful

Every fall, plants like ragweed irritate my son’s sinuses. One night, his symptoms became so severe I thought he should see a doctor. Our f...

God Hears Her | Combatting Human Trafficking (with Jenny Barber)

Guest Bio: For 15 years, Jenny has been a formidable force in the fight against sex-trafficking. With a deep commitment to supporting victims and...

Imitate Me

As his daddy cast his fishing line out into the lake, two-year-old Thomas mimicked his father’s actions with his own toy fishing pole. Late...