God Loves Like a Persistent Mother

Michael B. Brown writes in Men of Integrity:

A friend told me about a boy who was the apple of his parents' eyes. Tragically, in his mid-teens, the ...

Bitter Father Questions God

In 1989, 96 fans were crushed to death in a football [soccer] stadium in Sheffield, England, and another 200 were injured. At one of the hospitals where ...

Childlike Joy in God's Love

In his book The Wisdom of Tenderness, Brennan Manning tells the following story:

Several years ago, Edward Farrell of Detroit took his two-week vacation ...

"A.I.": The Worth of All Humans

The Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubric movie A.I.: Artificial Intelligence critiques the tendency of our culture toward dehumanization. In the film, ...

Michael Card on Believers in China

Musician Michael Card said in an interview:

Again and again in China I talked to people who had never heard of Christianity, never heard of Jesus, never ...

Experiencing Love Equips Us to Love

To me, it's more important to be loved than to love. When I have not had the experience of being loved by God, just as I am and not as I should be, ...

Abortion Guilt Removed

Pastor Lee Strobel shares this account:

We were doing a baptism service. We told people before they came up to the platform to be baptized to take a piece ...

Prayer for Mother's Recovery Goes Unanswered

Pastor Randy Frazee shared this with his congregation:

My mother was dying. I went to God and made a special request. By her bedside I prayed 50 times. ...

Father Comforts Child Through a Mail Slot

Author Garry Friesen writes: When my friend Reilly told me about his first visit to our church, I learned something about prayer. Reilly says that after ...

Director Kevin Smith on Being a Hollywood Believer

Kevin Smith, writer, and director on being a believer in Hollywood:

It hasn't been as nice an experience as I'd hoped it would be. I'm a churchgoer. ...