“The wicked man earns deceptive wages, but he who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.” Proverbs 11:16 ...
Two moments of fear in the life of C. S. Lewis were: ...
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according...
"Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness." Acts 4:29 ...
As obedient children, let yourselves be pulled into a new way of life shaped by God's life, a life energetic and blazing with holiness. God said, "I am holy; you be holy." ...
When I was seven, I wanted to be Phyllis because she had the prettiest voice in the choir. At fifteen, I wanted to be Kathy because she looked like a flower blossom, and...
My husband and I both remember the electric moment in which we first laid eyes on one another. I was drawn to the life-embracing grin in his large eyes. He was intrigued by...
Paul and Silas waited in an inner cell shut off from light, too dark even to see. Unfairly accused, stripped, beaten, publicly humiliated, and thrown into jail, everything about the day was...
Christian love is not an ideal or an idea. It is an event that occurred when God spoke for himself on our...
Three artists teaching at an arts conference grabbed lunch together, and talk turned to news reports of women killed at the hands of husbands, boyfriends, close acquaintances. Over iced tea and...
I met him in the darkest time of my life. One year before, my young husband and 21-month-old daughter had died in an automobile accident. Six months later I gave birth to a...
Remember that failure is predictable, but how you use it is full of possibility.
Three friends and I arrived just before 6:30 p.m. The house director greeted us at the door and quickly took us down a long, bare corridor. Over the PA system, we heard the...
Once a week at our house, my job is to clean the bathroom. Twenty-five years ago, when I first took the job...
Last week, I was listening to a dear friend in agony over the probability of war and the inevitable suffering inherent in...
Our culture puts emphasis on feelings, but the New Testament put the emphasis on thinking. Our conversion, for instance, powerfully transforms how we think: "Do not be conformed to this world but...
The man on the front row reared back. "You mean to tell me that artists don't know what the finished product will...
Several of us who were young pastors once spent an evening with the late Dr. Henrietta Mears, for many years the director...
The March day was crisp and cool, the Thursday of Easter week, when the couple received the news. They were young and with a toddler and another baby on the way. The doctor’s...
Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a long robe with sleeves. But when his brothers...
