Tony Snow on God's Plan

Tony Snow, former press secretary for President George W. Bush, has been battling cancer, off and on, since early 2005. When asked what spiritual lessons ...

The Body's Need for Pain

Philip Yancey learned a high appreciation for pain's warning function while collaborating on three books with Dr. Paul Brand. Brand was the missionary ...

Woman Lives Without Power for 15 Years

When a hurricane hit South Florida, Norena's home was one of many that was severely damaged. The elderly woman received an insurance settlement, and ...

The Problem with Peacemakers

Peacemakers are honored insofar as they speak about peace as something already victoriously won that we can celebrate as part of our glorious past or ...

Alone in the Wind for God

Certain it is that the reason there is so much shallow living—much talk but little obedience—is that so few are prepared to be, like the pine ...

"We Do This for Jesus"

On December 9, 2007, Matthew Murray shot and killed Tiffany Johnson, 26, and Philip Crouse, 24, at a Youth With a Mission (YWAM) training center in the ...

A Brother's Long Journey to Healing

In his spiritual memoir A Stranger in the House of God, author and Moody Bible Institute professor John Koessler tells the story of his younger brother ...

The (Not So) Terrible Year

I'm sitting in yet another hospital waiting room.

Ever since my husband, Barry, first underwent open heart and quadruple bypass surgery 15 months ago, ...

Finding Comfort in the Worshiping Community

I got the news that I was sick on the afternoon of my 39th birthday. It took a bit of time, travel, and a series of wretched tests to get the specific ...

Fire Victim: "We Have a Lot to Be Thankful For"

Fire swept through Southern California from the north of Los Angeles to the Mexican border during October, 2007. Five hundred thousand acres were burned ...