Listening Provides an Opportunity for Evangelism

The book Irresistible Evangelism includes the story of Jan, a staffer with Athletes in Action. After attending a conference where the importance of listening ...

California Firestorm Makes Hesitation Fatal

In the fall of 2003, a string of Southern California wildfires eventually claimed two-dozen lives. The flames moved at a speed faster than people could ...

Your Responsibility to Read the Instructions

Gordon MacDonald writes:

Being a frequent flyer makes it possible for me to get a seat in the exit row on most airline flights. Great leg room. But with ...

Stopping to Hear God Whisper His Love

Author Mike Yaconelli says:

I travel a lot, and I came to San Francisco one night and missed my connection back home. I was angry and upset, and I called ...

Lenten Stillness

At my house, the TV is off. It will be until Easter. The first time this happened, it was unintentional.

Some years ago, a few weeks before Easter, a burglar ...

God Calls Us to Him

When the infamous September 11 airplane barreled into the Pentagon, Officer Isaac Hoopii was nearby but outside the building. Immediately he began helping ...

Hearing God's Word of Love

When Steve Henning of Huntley, Illinois, was two years old, he contracted spinal meningitis. It was the winter of 1943, and because of World War II, doctors ...

Listening Well Leads to Success

Erik Weihenmayer is blind, yet on May 25, 2001 (Nepal time), he reached the peak of Mt. Everest. Suffering from a degenerative eye disease, he lost his ...

An Actor's Desire to Meet God

In the Chicago Tribune Magazine actor Kyle Chandler known for movies such as, “Friday Night Lights,” “Bloodline,” The Wolf of ...

Meeting God in Silence

Somewhere on the dusty shelf of books I read to my children when they were young is a little volume called A Hole Is to Dig. Each charmingly illustrated ...