H. B. London on Mysteries That Stretch Our Faith

H. B. London writes in “They Call Me Pastor:”

Four doctors in surgical greens stood before Dave and Jana at the Huntington Memorial Hospital ...

J. R. R. Tolkien on Evil and the Purposes of God

J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, made clear in his private writings he intended to proclaim a Christian message ...

God Works Out Salvation Through Suffering

Suffering is not evidence of God's absence, but of God's presence, and it is in our experience of being broken that God does his surest and most ...

Dallas Holm on Faith Despite Disease

Linda Holm, one-time member of the band Dallas Holm and Praise, found a malignant lump in her breast. Though her faith was strong and she was sure of ...

Suffering Makes God Known to Us

The fundamental lesson of the book of Job, like that of the Bible as a whole, is quite simple: our sole hope and only anchor in the midst of suffering ...

Vince Gill Learns a Lesson

Country singer Vince Gill tells about meeting a young cancer patient named Tara:

I remember meeting her in the hospital after playing golf all day, and ...

Actor Jim Carrey on Hidden Pain

Actor and comedian Jim Carrey said: "If we all acted the way we really felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing." ...

Songwriter Learns Atheism from His Father

Lyrics from Randy Newman's song "Old Man" demonstrate the lessons he learned from his father, who was an atheist: "Don't need no ...

Philip Yancey on Endurance

Philip Yancey tells of a letter he received from a friend whose daughter, Peggie, was terminally ill. The mother wrote:

The weekend before she went into ...

Alan Redpath on Trusting God's Will

There is nothing, —no circumstance, no trouble, no testing, —that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ, right through ...