George Bush Longs to Please His Father

In his book, First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty, author Bill Minutaglio tells a story of current Presidential contender George W. Bush's ...

Fear and Love in the Father

In Deepening Your Conversation with God, Ben Patterson writes:

[W]hen [my children] got old enough to wrestle with me, we played a game we called "Jabba ...

Schwarzenegger's Sacrifice

David Mains, director of Chapel Ministries, was sitting in a dental chair when his orthodontist asked David if he would go with him to see a movie. "I've ...

Eight Hundred Pacos

Ernest Hemingway wrote a story about a father and his teenage son. In the story, the relationship had become somewhat strained, and the teenage son ran ...

A Single Word Saves

Let all multiplicity be absent from your prayer. A single word was enough for the publican and the prodigal son to receive God's pardon. ... Do not try ...

Trusting Dad

I remember years ago David, our eldest son, being told by my husband, "Don't go to school on Monday. You're going to go for an x-ray." ...

Deformed by Sin

In The Whisper Test, Mary Ann Bird writes: I grew up knowing I was different, and I hated it. I was born with a cleft palate, and when I started school, ...

Of Poverty and Loss

Far back in my boyhood I remember an old saint telling me that after some services he liked to make his way home alone, by quiet byways, so that the hush ...

Hold on Tighter

I heard Professor Bruce Waltke describe a Christian's response to pain this way: We once rescued a wren from the claws of our cat. Though its wing ...

A Child's Trust

I remember watching a father play with his little boy, repeatedly throwing him in the air and catching him just before he hit the ground. The child is ...