Power Encounter in Ghana

I once met a brother from Ghana, West Africa, who was completing his PhD in the School of World Missions at Fuller Theological Seminary. During one of ...

The Difference Between a Realist and a Skeptic

A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.

—Warren ...

Is Prozac God's Gift?

Concerning the mystery of God's help, John Ortberg writes:

God does come, and he may come in unexpected ways. Lewis Smedes was a teacher of mine in ...

Wartime Gardens Symbolize Life

Jane Garmey, a writer for The Wall Street Journal, recently wrote a piece about Kenneth Helphand, a professor of landscape architecture at the University ...

Man Ignores Answer to Prayer

A businessman was late for an important meeting and couldn't find a parking space. As he frantically circled the block, the man got so desperate that ...

One Way to Love God

There is but one way in which God should be loved, and that is to take no step except with Him and for Him, and to follow, with a generous self-abandonment, ...

God Heals Woman's Eyesight

When I was a boy, my sister left our home in Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, and traveled to Central Bible College. She had always had a lifelong problem with ...

Amish Continue to Show Forgiveness

On October 2, 2006, Charles Roberts walked into an Amish schoolhouse, dismissed all but ten young girls, and proceeded to shoot them before fatally shooting ...

Mother's Prayer Heals Man's Blindness

Richard Moore of Derry, Northern Ireland, was just ten years old when blinded by a British soldier who fired a rubber bullet at him at point-blank range. ...

Saharan Run Shows Amazing Endurance

Charlie Engle, Ray Zahab, and Kevin Lin know endurance better than most. For 111 days, they ran the equivalent of two marathons a day in order to cross ...