My all-time favorite fruit is the Filipino mango. While mango trees can live for 300 years, how do they stay standing when typhoon-force winds blow? There's only one answer: their…
When as a parent you have young kids, it's as if you're in God's waiting room. You're anticipating the day when the "rosebuds" will mature and bloom. You nurture the…
Ever see sunflowers growing in someone's garden? Or perhaps by the side of the road? You probably noticed that they almost always face toward the sun. In the morning, young…
In the last verse of the last chapter of the last book the apostle Peter ever wrote, he gave us some valuable instruction. He said, "But grow in the grace…
Candy wrote, "Today I lost my wallet! And I put a big bald spot in my husband's hair! Do you ever have those days where your brain is just not…
The young boy grabbed his lunch, tucked it in his tunic and took off for the countryside to spend the day listening to the Teacher, Jesus of Nazareth. We don't…
Author Elizabeth George writes, Here's a question to think about: If someone asked you to describe the quiet time you had this morning, what would you say? This is exactly…
Dark periods in life come to all of us—times when all you know about God is being put to the test. The Apostle Paul had an experience like that. It…
Mention any date since 1980 to Jill Price, and she can tell you what happened to her on that day—"what time she got up, who[m] she met, what she did,…
Temptation comes to all of us in one form or another. Who at one time or another has not felt an intense desire to do something you really knew you…