Stolen Dreams

Larry Carter, president of Great Lakes Christian College, tells the following true story:

I remember when I was a kid, some 40 years ago, playing on a ...

An Enormous Lack

I think that what children in the United States desperately need is a moral purpose, and a lot of our children here aren't getting that. They're ...

Widening Circle of Unbelief

One child lost to the faith usually becomes a family lost to the faith, and not many generations later a whole community of unbelief is set in motion ...

A Day Wasted?

In The Effective Father, Gordon MacDonald wrote: "It is said of Boswell, the famous biographer of Samuel Johnson, that he often referred to a special ...

Going the Wrong Direction

In my country, England, we play a game called "bowls." When you're too old to run around the block or play tennis or racquetball, you can ...

Garbling the Lord's Prayer

My Sunday school class of youngsters had some problems repeating the Lord's Prayer, but they didn't lack in imagination. One child prayed, "Our ...

An Answer to Prayer

It was a cold winter day and the entire family was snug in our warm house. Everyone that is, except for our six-year-old Jonathan, who insisted on playing ...

Do the Right Thing

A little honesty paid handsome dividends for Herbert Tarvin, 11, who drew praise for returning eighty-five cents that he picked up after an armored car ...

Holiday Hand-Me-Downs

The Sunday before Christmas, my Sunday school class brought me gifts. One little girl presented her package and innocently said, "Here, someone gave this ...

Giving Fifty Percent

A young family regularly sits behind my parents during morning worship. Every Sunday when the offering is taken, the father gives each of his children ...