Turn on the Light
As my husband and I prepared for a cross-country move, I wanted to ensure that...
Thinking Differently
During college, I spent a good chunk of a summer in Venezuela. The food was...
A Legacy of Acceptance
In his book Breaking Down Walls, Glen Kehrein writes about climbing to the roof of his college...
Lift Up Your Eyes
The clouds hung low, blocking the horizon and limiting visibility to only a few hundred...
A Ripening Process
Early in his fifty-year ministry in Cambridge, England, Charles Simeon (1759–1836) met a neighboring pastor,...
Curling Up with the Good Book
The small country of Iceland is a nation of readers. In fact, it’s reported that...
Prayer of the Broken-Down
“Dear Father in heaven, I’m not a praying man, but if you’re up there, and you can...
Giving Our Best
We stared at the piles of donated shoes as we entered a local homeless shelter....
Space for Me
He was an aging military veteran, rough-edged and given to even rougher language. One day...
Borrowed Shoes
In the chaos of fleeing his home during the California wildfires of 2018, Gabe, a...
Doing Our Role
When two of my grandchildren tried out for the musical Alice in Wonderland Jr., their...
God Hears Everything
One of the longest-recorded postal delays in history lasted eighty-nine years. In 2008 a homeowner...
Prayers on La Playa
During a trip to celebrate our twenty-fifth anniversary, my husband and I read our Bibles...
Stronger than Hate
Within twenty-four hours of his mother Sharonda’s tragic death, Chris found himself uttering these powerful,...
Loving the Stranger
When I moved to a new country, one of my first experiences left me feeling...
Begin with the End
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” I was often asked that...
Never Enough
Frank Borman commanded the first space mission that circled the moon. He wasn’t impressed. The...
Making Peace with Trouble
We were almost home when I noticed it: the needle of our car’s temperature gauge...
Don’t Be Deceived
The spotted lanternfly is a pretty insect with speckled outer wings and a splotch of...
Loving Others with Our Prayers
“Are people still praying for me?” That was one of the first questions a missionary...
Suffering Together
1 Corinthians 12:14–26 In 2013, seventy-year-old James McConnell, a British Royal Marine veteran, died. McConnell...
On the Bubble
A news article in May 1970 contained one of the first uses of the idiom...
How to Wait
Frustrated and disappointed with church, seventeen-year-old Trevor began a years-long quest for answers. But nothing...
Look Up!
When filmmaker Wylie Overstreet showed strangers a live picture of the moon as seen through...
A Flourishing Tree
I’ve always had a collector’s heart. As a kid, I collected stamps. Baseball cards. Comics....
Simply Ask
Her doctor said her detached retinas couldn’t be repaired. But after living without sight for...
Eternal Eyes
Eternal eyes, that’s what my friend Madeline prays her children and grandchildren would have. Her...
How to Rebuild
It was nighttime when the leader set out by horseback to inspect the work that...
Truly Humble, Truly Great
As the American Revolution concluded with England’s improbable surrender, many politicians and military leaders maneuvered...
Needing His Leading
Uncle Zaki was more than a friend to scholar Kenneth Bailey; he was his trusted...