Flawed but Fruitful

A house servant had two large pots. One hung on each end of a pole that he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it. At the end of the ...

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 Strong Arm of God

My brother and I were preparing to leave the bank with his 5-year-old daughter, Melissa. She ran ahead to open the heavy door. She huffed, puffed, and ...

The World Is Mine

I was coming back from Ridgecrest a few years ago, and there had been three thousand students or so. They show up everywhere--for a whole week. Finally ...

Don't Let Temptation Build a Nest

Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them ...

God Uses the Weak

God had looked for a man weak enough, and He found me.

Tension Between Strength and Weakness

There's been real tension when people have wanted me to be strong and have refused to let me be weak; some have tempted me not to reveal my weaknesses, ...

Going the Wrong Direction

In my country, England, we play a game called "bowls." When you're too old to run around the block or play tennis or racquetball, you can ...

Love Is Strong

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

A Society of Inadequacy

Deep down we have a sense of individual insecurity. Maxwell Maltz, who wrote Psycho-Cybernetics, estimates that 95 percent of people in our society have ...