When you lose a loved one—someone very close and dear to you, you naturally grieve. Something would be wrong if you didn't, for that person's input in your life has,…
It happened in southern India in the 1940s. A young village boy about twelve years old was helping Dr. Margaret Brand, the missionary eye doctor, as she did cataract surgery.…
Probably everybody wants to go to heaven when they die. At least, they certainly don't want to go to hell! But have you thought about what it would be like…
On Christmas day 1863, the poet Longfellow wrote, I heard the bells on Christmas day Their old familiar carols play, And wild and sweet the words repeat Of peace on…
In 1994, two Americans who had answered an invitation from the Russian Department of Education to teach Biblical ethics, were invited to a government-run orphanage, where about 100 abandoned and…
I wish I knew the unknown author of this Christmas version of 1 Corinthians 13. Christmas or not, I'm grateful for her insights. If I decorate my house perfectly with…
Here's a verse in Psalms I call The Shopper's Prayer because when I'm shopping, I need this verse: "Turn my eyes away from worthless things" (Psalm 119:37). How easy it…
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…