Sitting with God on the Bathroom Floor

In his book The Pressure's Off, psychologist Larry Crabb uses a story from his childhood to illustrate our need to delight in God through adversity: ...

Behold and Be Still

Two commands direct us from the small-minded world of self-help to the large world of God's help. First, "Come, behold the works of the Lord." ...

Archbishop Richard Trench on Prayer

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance … it is laying hold of his highest willingness.

—Archbishop Richard Trench

Yancey on God's Redemptive Work

Philip Yancey on the redemptive work of God:

I once was part of a small group with a Christian leader whose name you would likely recognize. He went through ...

How to Live in Fear of God

To live in fear of God means that we live before God and the rest of reality in such a way that there is never contempt within us. We take nothing for ...

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 ...

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 ...