How do we know what God is like? From the New Testament we learn specifically what He is like by how Jesus, God's Son, lived right here where we live--on…
Yesterday I met a friend I haven't seen in quite a long time. Her natural loveliness draws your attention. But she has another characteristic that I think is the true…
In 1949 when Billy Graham held his big tent revival in Los Angeles, some of Hollywood's most famous made decisions to accept Christ. Among those was Jim Voss, an electronics…
The prophet Isaiah had a most unusual vision of heaven. He saw the Lord seated on a throne, and then he heard the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And…
I attended my grandson's high school graduation where diplomas were presented to the seniors by their parents. Since this was a home school group, emotions ran high as each set…
No one knows more about gardening than God does. After all, He Himself planted the first garden on this earth, the Garden of Eden. He knows well the science of…
Sometimes I think we forget the kind of God we're praying to. Do we remember that He is the one who created both the heavens and the earth? In our…
As a child in her native Finland, Marjaana always wanted to be a missionary in Africa. At a church service, when a Kenyan nurse known as Sister Freda urged the…
The scene was the Garden of Gethsemane. A band of men from the chief priests and Pharisees had arrived to arrest Jesus. Peter, wanting to defend Jesus, drew out his…
In the apostle Peter's second letter to the early Christians, he lists five qualities that we should try to evidence in our lives: he urges us to add to our…