God's Overwhelming Providence

Author Philip Yancey writes:

In high school, I took pride in my ability to play chess. I joined the chess club, and during lunch hour could be found sitting ...

Tornado Insurance

"We said a prayer that God would watch over us."

—Sherri Conley, of Oklahoma, telling the Daily Oklahoman how she, her husband, and two ...

Your Part in Life’s Drama

In his novel, Edge of Eternity, Randy Alcorn compares our lives on earth to those of the characters in a novel. He writes:

Each character is placed in ...

Don't Limit God

Beware in your prayer, above everything, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what he can do.

Inconvenient Rapture?

[Our] striving after wind is motivated by a sinister desire to be independent of God, free from the frightening vulnerability of His watch-care. If we ...

Some Things Only God Can Do

One of the great failures of the church is that we often try to accomplish with human systems what only God can do.

God Is Always Able

Once we were able, and now we're not. You know what you used to be able to do. I remember somebody at the Sunday school picnic who had been quite ...

"One Nation under God"

Abraham Lincoln was the first President to use the phrase, "This nation under God." It inspired President Eisenhower, in 1954, to add the words ...

Why God Is Not to Blame

It was still light out, when the young woman left the campus library to walk to her car in a well-lit parking lot. She was accosted brutalized, raped. ...

Honoring God for Our Own Sake

We pay God honor and reverence, not for his sake (because he is of himself full of glory to which no creature can add anything), but for our own sake.