Being Certain of God's Love

In his book Doubting, author Alister McGrath shared the following story to illustrate how we can know God loves us:

An aunt of mine died some time ago, ...

Bible Translation Changes a Life

In March of 1956 (when I was about 6), a tall, pale, white man stumbled into my home village of Dibagat in the northern jungles of the Philippine island ...

Amish Community Mourns Attacker

On the morning of October 2, 2006, a troubled milkman named Charles Carl Roberts barricaded himself inside the West Nickel Mine Amish School, ultimately ...

Wife Learns Marriage Lessons from Animal Trainers

Amy Sutherland communicates some interesting ideas about husbands and wives in an article she wrote for the New York Times called, "What Shamu Taught ...

Child Prays for Abusive Uncle

Heidi Neumark, pastor of Transfiguration Lutheran Church in the South Bronx, writes:

Because of visitation to their homes and because of our open doors ...

Unused Spiritual Resources

During Superbowl XXXVII, FedEx ran a commercial that spoofed the movie Castaway, in which Tom Hanks played a FedEx worker whose company plane went down, ...

King Shows Kindness to Rebels

Once upon a time, there was a good and kind king who had a great kingdom with many cities. In one distant city, some people took advantage of the freedom ...

Come to God with a Bucket

Nancy Spiegelberg writes in Our Daily Bread:

Lord, I crawled across the bareness to you with my empty cup, uncertain in asking any small drop of refreshment. ...

Augustine on Accomplishments without Grace

Nothing whatever in the way of goodness pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without [grace].

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe": Death Turned Backwards

The movie The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is based on the classic novel by C. S. Lewis about four London children who are ...