Student's Impossible Prayer Unanswered

However much he may want to, I do not believe God will answer the prayer of the student who turned in his test and prayed, "O God, please let Paris ...

Christmas Giving

It's just a small, white envelope stuck among the branches of our Christmas tree. No name, no identification, no inscription. It has peeked through ...

Persevering through Pain

Author and pastor Gary Preston writes:

Recently I read about a professional hockey player who is a star of the NHL team in the metro area near where I ...

WWJD for a Prostitute?

Author and speaker Barbara Johnson writes:

I had just finished speaking at one of the last Women of Faith (WOF) conferences in 1998, challenging the audience ...

Vision for Life

Tree-skiing may sound like a death wish, but some skiers love the risk of skiing virgin powder lying in a stand of aspen or spruce. The key, of course, ...

What a Christian Looks Like

When I led a Young Life group, I did my best to round up kids who really needed to hear the gospel when we went to summer camp. Mark was one of those ...

Single-Mindedness

Let your intentions in the fulfillment of your duties be so pure that you reject from your actions every other object but the Glory of God and the salvation ...

Match Up with God?

[Frank] Lubauch states that he started [his] minute-to-minute practicing of God's presence by "trying to line up my actions with the will of ...

Life in the Valleys

Sacrificing the routine is not what makes effective people. ... Most of us go through life for the peaks, rather than realizing that life is often lived ...

A Perfect Fit

When we come to God and say, "I love you, and I'm prepared to do your will whatever you want me to do," we can be sure that God is not going ...