Born in a Grave

There was a time during the most horrible persecutions of the Jews by the Nazis in Poland that an old Jewish cemetery keeper came into the cemetery one ...

Priceless Love

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure ...

God Is Sufficient for Me

God, of your goodness, give me yourself; for you are sufficient for me. I cannot properly ask anything less, to be worthy of you. If I were to ask less, ...

The Gift God Wants

When I was in seminary, a pastor from a Christian Reformed church in Chicago came to the campus. One evening he told us the story of a couple in his church, ...

Love Wins Souls

If you can really make a man believe you love him, you have won him; and if I could only make people really believe that God loves them, what a rush we ...

God the Father

A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father.

Love Like a River

Recently I was sent a picture of a jug into which water was being poured. The idea was that love, or whatever we need, is poured into us like that. I ...

Raised from the Slime

(Psalms 103) blesses the Lord for "all his benefits," which include not only the forgiveness of sins, but also the lifting of shame. ... God ...

Because He Loves Me

One evening, while putting my daughter, Carla, to bed, I asked her what it was like to be four years old. She said, "It's special."

"Why ...

Hardly Safe

[Since] last spring ... I look for tornadoes. ... One personal encounter with a power that before was only theoretical can make all the difference. You ...