Fear and Love in the Father

In Deepening Your Conversation with God, Ben Patterson writes:

[W]hen [my children] got old enough to wrestle with me, we played a game we called "Jabba ...

Schwarzenegger's Sacrifice

David Mains, director of Chapel Ministries, was sitting in a dental chair when his orthodontist asked David if he would go with him to see a movie. "I've ...

Priceless Response

One summer, my daughter taught the 4-year-olds at vacation Bible school. The first day she gave everyone yarn necklace nametags to wear around their necks. ...

Evening and Morning

The Hebrew evening/morning sequence conditions us to the rhythms of grace. We go to sleep, and God begins his work. ... We wake into a world we didn't ...

Loving God's Way

We can risk loving as passionately as God loves. For we know that the love God makes possible is no scarce resource that must be hoarded so that it may ...

God's Grace Is Versatile

God's grace is not only sufficient, it's versatile. God accepts and loves each of us just as we are. And he gives us the privilege of demonstrating ...

Why God Loves Us

I read the testimony of an ironsmith, who said he worked with iron because iron was so hard to bend into something beautiful. He said he wanted to make ...

Daddy's Baby's Come Home

On a short flight from Tucson to Phoenix, I noticed a young woman with her baby. They were both dressed in white pinafores. The mother was smiling, and ...

Living in Relationship

Just as husband and wife live out their lives against the backdrop of being married, so do we live out the entirety of our lives against the backdrop ...

Drawn to God

There is within us all a magnetic draw to seek God's presence in a more exclusive way, focusing on divine attention rather than our own egocentric list ...