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 ...

Trusting Like a Cat

The best parable of trust we have in our home is our cat, Clement of Alexandria. When our cat goes outside, he lives in terror. He looks around as though ...

Unwavering Trust

The commercial begins with a young girl standing alone in a picturesque meadow. The camera then pans to another part of the field where it shows a gigantic ...

Waiting Like a Trapeze Flyer

Not long before his death, Henri Nouwen wrote a book called Sabbatical Journeys. He writes about some friends of his who were trapeze artists, called ...

Poorly Placed Trust

The story is told that a national magazine assigned a photographer to take pictures of a forest fire. They told him a small plane would be waiting at ...

Albert Einstein and Mysteries

In Albert Einstein's early days physicists had scratched their heads for some 50 years over the unexplainable orbit of the planet Mercury. Newton's theories ...

God in a Noisy World

It is easy to say we believe in God as long as we remain in the little world we choose to live in; but get out into the great world of facts, the noisy ...

On the Edge

When my daughter Katie was small, she worried about falling off the changing table. Twisting her head so that the end of the table was right in front ...

Holy Dependence

There is no security in things. In fact, things are deceptive: they appear to be satisfying and lasting when they are actually temporary and unable to ...

Never Say "Why Me?"

I can honestly say I never said, "Why me?" There are two ways you can react to something like this. you can say, "Why me, God? Why me?" ...