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 ...

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 ...