Commands Help Us Love

At one time, there were no laws about child safety seats and automobile restraint systems. Tragically, many young children were not safely belted in their ...

Actions Show Beliefs

Your behavior is a reflection of what you truly believe.

Heeding God’s Word

My five-year-old daughter, Barbara, had disobeyed me and had been sent to her room. After a few minutes, I went in to talk with her about what she had ...

Cannot Choose Which Cross

God can never make me wine if I object to the fingers he uses to crush me. If God would only crush me with his own fingers, and say, “Now, my son, ...

Training Trouble

While listening to the song "Train Up a Child," my daughter Emily asked me what "train up" means. I explained that it means to teach ...

Obedience: Majoring in Minors, Too

Sometimes we excuse relatively minor flaws in people, especially if they have done something extraordinary for God. But God doesn't just want extraordinary ...

A Law That Brings Freedom

In The Mennonite Brethren Herald (2-19-99), Jim Holm writes:

When I was in third grade, I was condemned to live under a law—the law of near-sightedness. ...

The Truth Looks Back

Christian truth itself has eyes to see with. In fact it is all eye. That's very disquieting. Think of looking at a painting and discovering that the ...

Giving It All to God

I was with Billy Graham in the second crusade he ever conducted in Augusta, Georgia; he was just a young fellow. And he has said to me, "I never ...

Respecting Delegated Authority

Let's say you came to my house for a party and the cars were lined up along the street and you pulled in the empty driveway. A little girl came out ...