Jesus Prays for Us

In his book entitled Prayer, Philip Yancey writes:

As Jesus once prayed for Peter, now he prays for us… In fact, the New Testament's only glimpse ...

Facing Harsh Reality

The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your ...

Mother Gains New Perspective from 8-Year-Old's Scribbling

In his book Hidden in Plain Sight: The Secret of More, author and pastor Mark Buchanan illustrates God's love through the story of Tracy. He writes: ...

Coffee-Taster Has Excellent Discernment

In his book The Gospel According to Starbucks, Leonard Sweet tells the story of Ed Faubert. Faubert is what you call a "cupper"—in layman's ...

Guidance: Lesson from JFK, Jr., Crash

In the aftermath of John Kennedy, Jr.'s, death, the Chicago Tribune ran an article about flying. In it, amateur pilot Stephen Hedges writes about ...

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, ...

Woman Healed of Wounds from Sexual Abuse

When Marion Duckworth was in first grade, the Depression had just ended, and talking about anything related to sex—especially sexual abuse—was ...

Chiropractor Led to Minister Through Business

Chiropractor Perry Hefty and his wife, Arlys, wanted to be in what they considered "ministry" for many years. One day when Perry was crying ...

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 the Limitations of Free Will

Free will, without God's grace and the Holy Ghost, can do nothing but sin.