Jesus Understands Our Pain

Author and speaker Jill Briscoe recalls:

In Croatia I was asked to speak to a church gathering for about 200 newly arrived refugees. Refugees from this ...

Can't Hide Great News

While I was attending seminary, our two older children (ages 9 and 7) seemed to attract every other child in the mobile home park for after-school games ...

Considerate Witnesses

While in seminary in Chicago's suburbs, I discovered that a Promise Keepers' convention was coming to Soldier Field. A group of us took a commuter ...

Gospel's Holy Calling

Some years ago we had a lot of denominational leaders visiting the campus where I teach. In one meeting with the faculty, we went around the room and ...

An Unforgiven Prodigal Son

An ancient Asian legend tells the story of a man who had a wild and impetuous son. Curtis E. Liens, in The Man with Dirty Hands, says:

The boy became ...

Deaf to God

May 18, 1980 is one of those dates on which many of us can remember where we were and what we were doing. That was the day Mount St. Helens erupted. I ...

Unbelievably Good Gospel

A friend of mine serves as a missionary in a restricted access country. For many years the government of this country has taught the people that there ...

Mixed News of Gospel

In the gospel, we discover we are far worse off than we thought, and far more loved than we ever dreamed.

Transforming a Hostile Culture

"Never before has such terror appeared in Britain as we have now suffered from a pagan race," wrote English scholar Alcuin. He was referring ...

Our Ramp to God

In Love Found a Way, Ron Mehl writes:

Whenever I drive to the east side of Portland over the Marquam Bridge, I'm reminded of what it took for God to ...