The Strong Arm of God

My brother and I were preparing to leave the bank with his 5-year-old daughter, Melissa. She ran ahead to open the heavy door. She huffed, puffed, and ...

Never Say "Why Me?"

I can honestly say I never said, "Why me?" There are two ways you can react to something like this. you can say, "Why me, God? Why me?" ...

God Uses the Weak

God had looked for a man weak enough, and He found me.

Tension Between Strength and Weakness

There's been real tension when people have wanted me to be strong and have refused to let me be weak; some have tempted me not to reveal my weaknesses, ...

Poverty Brings Strength

Octavius (the pagan) charges:

Look: some of you, the greater half (the better half, you say), go in need, suffer from cold, from hunger and toil. And yet ...

The Power of Individuals

The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much--the companies never. It is the units, the single individuals, that are the ...

Pray for Strength

Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger people. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing ...

God Is Fighting Your Battle

Mark what has been the practice of the Devil from the beginning, most cruelly to rage against God's children, when God begins to show them his mercy. ...

The Christian Anchor

If ever you have the chance to visit the catacombs in Rome, those tunnels under the ancient city, where many of the early Christians were buried, you ...

Worthless Worries

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.