Two Men, Same Name, Different Life Outcomes

The book The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates tells the story of two black men with the same name. Both were born in Maryland. Both grew up with single ...

Woman Discovers God as Her Father

In his book Invitation to a Journey, author M. Robert Mulholland Jr. tells the story of a woman he met who was the result of an unwanted pregnancy. She ...

Winning a Son's Heart

In his book The Masculine Mandate, pastor and author Richard D. Phillips writes of his meaningful relationship with his father. In 1972, Phillips was ...

Mothers Never Get a Break

Hungry at the end of the day, a 15-year-old boy found his mother in bed and was suddenly seized with concern.

"Mom, are you sick or something?"

John Ortberg on the Importance of Spiritual Weaning

Stillness is always a prerequisite for receptivity. Telephones and television sets cannot receive messages when they are too filled with static and noise. ...

Aunt Forgiven for Death of Nephew

In his book Free of Charge, author Miroslav Volf shares a personal story about the power of grace and forgiveness:

I was one then, and my five-year-old ...

Girl Without Father Counts Her Blessings

Heather Bermingham writes in an article "No Dad to Call":

My youth group was hundreds of miles from home on a mission trip in New Orleans. We ...

Father Learns Valuable Lesson at Son's Baseball Game

Philip Ryken writes in “He Speaks to Me Everywhere”:

During one memorable at-bat the spring of my son's first baseball season, he repeatedly ...

God Gives Before We Ask

Max Lucado writes in the “Cure for the Common Life”:

The bank sent me an overdraft notice on the checking account of one of my daughters. I ...

A Special Day with Dad Is a Foretaste of Heaven

Gordon MacDonald writes:

For most of my life, my father and I have struggled to connect with each other. We are very different men, and our differences ...