Surprised by the Answer

We were in need of passage money to return to our work in Switzerland. In faith, we set a date that the children and I began "praying towards." We contemplated ...

Deformed by Sin

In The Whisper Test, Mary Ann Bird writes: I grew up knowing I was different, and I hated it. I was born with a cleft palate, and when I started school, ...

Daddy's Baby's Come Home

On a short flight from Tucson to Phoenix, I noticed a young woman with her baby. They were both dressed in white pinafores. The mother was smiling, and ...

Why Do You Love God?

During a visit to the children's Bible class, my preacher friend looked into their serious faces and asked, "Why do you love God?" After ...

Thank You for Tomorrow

He was just a little fellow. His mother died when he was just a child. His father, in trying to be both mommy and daddy, had planned a picnic. The little ...

Fine Discernment

One night as we were packing up after a concert, we sent a young woman to pick up our children from the home they were staying in. Since the children ...

He's a Little Disappointed

When I was staying with a neighbor's five- and seven-year-olds I heard a squeal coming from the next room--then Becky's voice, "Mike, God doesn't love ...

Baby Blue Wisdom

Speaker and author Carol Kent was on the fast track to being an absentee parent--until her young son, Jason, made a simple observation. She recalls:

"We ...

Parent Reform Before School Reform

It's not better teachers, texts, or curricula that our children need most; it's better childhoods, and we will never see lasting school reform ...

A Second Opinion

To start a discussion on core values, our youth pastor asked the teenagers: "What would you do if your doctor told you that you had only 24 hours ...