Third Time’s a Charm? How to Endure Trials with Hope I could hear it in his voice when I answered his call. My stomach tightened, as I prepared for the punch to the gut I feared was coming next. Then he said it, and my stomach did... Read More
Home: The Now & Not Yet (The following is a submission I posted to my writer friend, Jennifer Wier's Homeward Bound Series. I'm grateful she shared this story with her readers, and I hope you'll enjoy... Read More
Three Life-Changing Benefits of the Abiding Life For six months, he agonized over the state of his soul. Each day, he would resolve to not take his eyes off the Lord, but inevitably, daily pressures and the daily mail would vex... Read More
Three Powerful Words That Raised the Dead to Life In 1749, off the west coast of Africa, the first mate on a slave-trading ship lay sick in bed with Malaria. Delirious from illness, and despairing because of the wretchedness of... Read More
Keep an Untroubled Heart Because You Know the Way When Elisabeth Elliot first learned that her husband, Jim, had gone missing among the Auca Indians in the Ecuadorian jungle, the Lord brought Isaiah 43:2 to mind. “When you... Read More
By Crook or By Hook, Our Shepherd is the Good One On the evening of February 28, 1909, a passenger train climbed a mountain slope through Shiokari Pass in Japan. Inexplicably, the last carriage car came uncoupled from the train... Read More
Behind the Open Door: Access to the Only True Celebrity For my twelfth birthday, my Mom took me to see my childhood idol, Amy Grant, in concert. To say I was a fan would be an understatement. I had all of her records and tapes and... Read More
How the Light of the World Offers Hope to those in Darkness For 68 years, Pierre-Paul Thomas’s world was void of light. Born with a congenital condition, his optic nerve was severely damaged and cataracts clouded his eyes. Surgeries... Read More
Teens, Quiet Times, & How to Change Affections One Pot of Earl Grey at a Time “Christ has not conquered my affections if he has to compete for my attention.” Leonard Ravenhill Every once in a while, I catch a glimpse of just how much our... Read More
