The Quiet Work of God's Guidance

In his novel Jayber Crow, the Kentucky farmer and writer Wendell Berry has his character Jayber talk about the quiet work of God's guidance in our ...

Athletes May not Understand Coach's Decisions

Editor's Note: Use the following analogy to illustrate how God has a much larger and wiser plan (that we may not understand) for the way he rules ...

Finding God's Providence in the Wake of a Grandchild's Death

In Dennis Rainey's book Stepping Up, he tells the story about the short life of his granddaughter Molly. Born with a brain aneurism, Molly lived only ...

Why God Permits What He Hates

God permits what he hates in order to accomplish what he loves.

Augustine on the Problem of Evil

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit any evil to exist.

Glad to Be Chosen

Entertainer Garrison Keilor recalls the childhood pain of being chosen last for the baseball teams.

The captains are down to their last grudging choices: ...

A Problem Becomes a Solution

I stood dismayed in the kitchen of our newly acquired country home--I had accidentally submerged my left foot in a tray of fresh wall paint. A few minutes ...