Coffee-Taster Has Excellent Discernment

In his book The Gospel According to Starbucks, Leonard Sweet tells the story of Ed Faubert. Faubert is what you call a "cupper"—in layman's ...

Troubled Children Missed Father's Blessing

Bill Glass writes in an article entitled, "The Power of a Father's Blessing:”

What is our country's biggest problem? A lack of a father's ...

Albert Einstein on God

When Albert Einstein was asked if he believed in God, here was his response: "I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Faith As Wild As the World

Speaking about preaching God's word, Michael Heher writes:

Don't make promises God doesn't keep. Account for the shaky ground and patches of ...

On Being Accident-Prone

A rabbi taught that experiences of God can never be planned or achieved. "They are spontaneous moments of grace, almost accidental."

His student ...

Being Certain of God's Love

In his book Doubting, author Alister McGrath shared the following story to illustrate how we can know God loves us:

An aunt of mine died some time ago, ...

Bible Translation Changes a Life

In March of 1956 (when I was about 6), a tall, pale, white man stumbled into my home village of Dibagat in the northern jungles of the Philippine island ...