READ: Matthew 6:25-34It’s easy to fall into the worry trap, especially in times of trial. We often get out ahead of ourselves and ahead of God as we attempt to ...
In October 1929, the Saturday Evening Post published a landmark interview with the great physicist and mathematician Albert Einstein.I find his response to questions of Jesus as a historical figure ...
There are not many things I regret, except that I sometimes have so little to regret.This sort of regret is almost exclusively reserved for Christian kids who grew up in ...
When my children were much younger, they would often come home from school spouting all kinds of information about who did what to whom, for what reason, the resulting consequences, ...
For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the glory that will be revealed to us. — Romans 8:18I kept for nearly a year the flask-shaped ...
If we truly understood even for a moment what sort of Companion, Counselor, and Friend we have in the Holy Spirit, it would banish all thoughts of loneliness forever.If you ...
There are both good ways and self-defeating ways to deal with loneliness. One self-defeating way is to become a workaholic. You spend all your time and energy working, working, working. ...
What Not to Do in a Crisis Don’t Drift When we are caught in a crisis, we typically react in three ways. Because the sailors couldn’t head into the wind, ...
A man is as big as the things that make him angry. ~ Winston Churchill, British prime ministerAs she walked the slums of Nansana, Uganda, Shana Gilbert couldn’t hold back ...
It was like discovering the prize in a box of Cracker Jacks or spotting a little pearl in a box of buttons or stumbling across a ten-dollar bill in a ...
Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs. — Exodus 7:12From the pen of Charles Spurgeon:This story is a wonderful example of the sure victory of God’s work over all opposition. Although ...
Not long ago a friend of mine lost his son. His one-year-old stopped breathing in the middle of the night, and his wife discovered their lifeless child after it was ...
Then two months into the pregnancy, Sonja lost the baby, and our misty-edged dreams popped like soap bubbles. Grief consumed Sonja. The reality of a child lost, one we would ...
We expect to be secluded in our homes during the winter months, but not during the summer! Yet there will inevitably be summer days when it is either too hot ...