Inspired by His Presence

President Theodore Roosevelt, a charismatic figure who made quite an impression on people. One journalist, William Allen White, wrote of his first meeting ...

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 ...

Access through Jesus' Name

I was traveling from Boston to Denver, and the departure area for my flight was buzzing with stern-looking men in dark suits talking into their lapels. ...

Our Comforting Shepherd

During the recent uprisings in the Middle East, Ron and Joke Jones, who serve with the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Israel, communicated the following ...

Tormented over Sacrificial Death

Former college football coach and Promise Keepers founder Bill McCartney tells about a man named Ivan who is a Vietnam veteran. Ivan lives in Denver, ...

Parable of Christ's Sacrifice

The mother of a nine-year-old boy named Mark received a phone call in the middle of the afternoon. It was the teacher from her son's school.

"Mrs. ...

Advent a Foreshadow of Good

Theologian Dale Bruner writes:

David Peterson, former pastor at the First Presbyterian Church in Spokane, Washington, told about a time when he was preparing ...

Vulnerability of God

World War II was drawing to a close. The German army was sending children to man the lines in a futile effort to stop the allied invasion into their homeland. ...

Jesus: Human and Divine

If we had been told that God was coming into a man's life… that must be something very terrible and awful. That certainly must rend and tear ...

Jesus from Heaven to Earth

Author and pastor Leith Anderson writes:

Several years ago I was visiting Manila and was taken, of all places, to the Manila garbage dump and saw something ...