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Digging for Meaning

We have a new puppy, Winston. He bites. Sleeps. Eats. (Does one or two other things.) Oh, and he digs. Winston doesn’t dig casually. He tun...

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Running the Race with Christ

Tom, age seven, admired his dad’s shiny trophies from school track events sitting on a shelf. He thought, I want one of those for my bedroo...

Serving God Each Season

After years of discipling Caleb by himself, Mark was dismayed to find out that a church leader had assigned another mentor to the young man. The ...

Life in Christ

A family who’d lost touch with their son and brother Tyler received an urn that was said to contain his cremation ashes. Just twenty-two ye...

God Is There

When my grandmother was gently informed that my grandpa would likely pass on in the next few days, we were concerned that she’d be upset an...

Panic in a Cave

They were three adrenaline-fueled teenage boys, unleashed in the immense underground system connecting to Mammoth Cave. With them was their Uncle...

Prayer of Desperation

In 2011, Karey Packard and her daughter were packing boxes for a move to a new home. Suddenly, Karey collapsed, and her heart stopped—the b...

Growing Up in God

In her early years as a Christian author, Gayle often received winsome gifts from her publisher. Bouquets of flowers, chocolates, boxes of herbal...

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Choices and Consequences

In 1890, amateur ornithologist Eugene Schieffelin decided to release sixty European starlings into New York City’s Central Park. While ther...

Grandma’s Last Night

My  grandmother had a routine on Saturday nights. Before she went to bed, she laid out all her clothing including the shoes she planned to w...

The Treasure Christ Offers

Michael Sparks walked into a thrift store and bought a souvenir copy of the US Declaration of Independence for $2.48. Later, as he looked closely...

Jesus—Our Everything

With the referee’s final gesture, wrestler Kennedy Blades became a 2024 Olympian. She pressed her palms together, lifted her hands and eyes...

From Glory to Glory

Living in a coastal town, Valerie loved warm weather, wildlife photography, and being in the water. Above all, she loved watching the sunrise ove...

Loving Others Through Prayer

“I don’t know where I’d be today if my mom hadn’t prayed for me. I don’t think I’d even be alive,” my f...

Sleepless?

My friend confided that he hadn’t been sleeping well. His sleeplessness was related to a difficult family situation that had kept him up at...

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A Grandmother’s Prayers

During a family reunion many years ago, my mother shared some words she’d written. She honored her grandmother, a woman I’d never met...

Unexpected Interruption

Manuel was late for church and stuck at a red light. As he waited impatiently, his daughter noticed a stranded driver trying to fix a tire. &ldqu...

Catch the Little Foxes

“It’s the little foxes that spoil the vine,” my grandmother used to say. Then my mom repeated the same thing. And now I say it ...

Christ Our Priority

“May we invite you to be the main speaker in our nationwide church leadership conference?” After Jose read the invitation from the re...

Credit Where Due

Hundreds of guests filled a golden ballroom to celebrate a nonprofit’s fiftieth anniversary and honor those who made it possible, especiall...

The God Who Rescues

Beneath the rugged cliffs of Brora, Scotland, a sheep needed rescue. Trapped in a valley surrounded by steep and unyielding rock on one side and ...