Our Desperation Moves God

My wife and I have friends whose son, in his middle teens, rebelled against them and against God. For four years he protested the innocence of his conduct ...

Christ Suffered for Us

Our son coughed a little during one Saturday night. At church the next day he started running a fever, and as his temperature went up he started having ...

Father's Hand Rescues Us

One of the most powerful images of my wife's childhood came when she and a neighbor girl were playing in some woods behind their homes. The neighbor ...

"Toy Story 2": You're Valuable

In the movie, Toy Story 2, the voices of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen once again bring to life the animated heroes Woody and Buzz Lightyear, two action-packed ...

First, Call Dad

While kayaking in southern England off the Isle of Wight, Mark Ashton-Smith, a 33-year-old lecturer at Cambridge University, capsized in treacherous waters. ...

Gifts Pleasing to God

One of the things my father taught all his sons was how to use a crosscut saw. His daddy and his daddy's daddy had taught their sons, and my father ...

Gandhi Can't Compare to Christ

Author Michael Green writes:

Only Jesus fully understands God the Father. Great people have discovered and taught many true and noble things about God. ...

God Weeps for the Lost

A Hasidic story tells of a great celebration in heaven after the Israelites are delivered from the Egyptians at the Red Sea, and the Egyptian armies are ...

A Father's Love

In Surprised by Children, Harold Myra writes:

One afternoon my older brother Johnny and I were walking home from school when we suddenly found ourselves ...

"Toy Story": Belonging to God

In Disney's animated movie Toy Story, Woody (a plush toy cowboy) confronts Buzz Lightyear (a toy astronaut) with the fact that he is only an action ...