Leader Earns Trust by Getting in the Mud with Others

Saul and Pilar Cruz, a married couple who founded Armonia Ministries in Mexico City, launched their ministry by planting a church on the edge of a vast ...

No Other Religion Proclaims God's Vulnerability

Tim Keller writes:

There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile. ...

Jesus' Birth Declares God's Love for Sinners

According to Martin Luther, even from his birth, Jesus was standing with sinners. Luther wrote:

Christ is the kind of person who is not ashamed of sinners—in ...

The Mother of a Gang Member Demonstrates God's Love

Gregory Boyle retells the story of a 15-year-old gang member named Rigo. Rigo was getting ready for a special worship service for incarcerated youth when ...

Med Student Led to Christ Through a Fellow Student’s Kindness

In his book, The Enormous Exception, Earl Palmer tells about a pre-med undergrad at the University of California Berkley who became a Christian after ...

Loving the Unlovable as Christ Loved Us

Jean Vanier, founder of the L'Arche communities, told the following story about persevering in our practice of unconditional love:

I know a man who ...

The Cross: Christ Descends into Our Sin

Theologian James R. Edwards retells the following true story to illustrate our need and Christ's response to our need. In August 1957 four climbers—two ...

Woman Throws Engagement Ring

One fine day in 1941, Violet Bailey and her fiancé Samuel Booth were strolling through the English countryside, deeply in love and engaged to be ...

Woman Reunited with Father after Decade of Captivity

On February 10, 1996, a 38-year-old security guard at a Pennsylvania middle school convinced then 14-year-old Tanya Kach to leave her father and live ...

Father Expresses Love to Alcoholic Son

In his book, Searching for God Knows What, Donald Miller shares a story of how he helped a friend whose alcoholism was destroying his life:

Last year, ...