For when the One Great Scorer comes To mark against your name, He writes—not that you won or lost— But how you played the Game. Grantland Rice, Alumnus Football, 1924 If sports imagery races...
“The wicked man earns deceptive wages, but he who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.” Proverbs 11:16 ...
Like everyone else coming into the world, I was born with a baby face. My misfortune was to keep mine longer than most, and through my twenties my face sometimes caused me problems...
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according...
"Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness." Acts 4:29 ...
When I was seven, I wanted to be Phyllis because she had the prettiest voice in the choir. At fifteen, I wanted to be Kathy because she looked like a flower blossom, and...
As obedient children, let yourselves be pulled into a new way of life shaped by God's life, a life energetic and blazing with holiness. God said, "I am holy; you be holy." ...
Paul and Silas waited in an inner cell shut off from light, too dark even to see. Unfairly accused, stripped, beaten, publicly humiliated, and thrown into jail, everything about the day was...
My husband and I both remember the electric moment in which we first laid eyes on one another. I was drawn to the life-embracing grin in his large eyes. He was intrigued by...
Christian love is not an ideal or an idea. It is an event that occurred when God spoke for himself on our...
I met him in the darkest time of my life. One year before, my young husband and 21-month-old daughter had died in an automobile accident. Six months later I gave birth to a...
Three artists teaching at an arts conference grabbed lunch together, and talk turned to news reports of women killed at the hands of husbands, boyfriends, close acquaintances. Over iced tea and...
Remember that failure is predictable, but how you use it is full of possibility.
Three friends and I arrived just before 6:30 p.m. The house director greeted us at the door and quickly took us down a long, bare corridor. Over the PA system, we heard the...
Once a week at our house, my job is to clean the bathroom. Twenty-five years ago, when I first took the job...
Last week, I was listening to a dear friend in agony over the probability of war and the inevitable suffering inherent in...
The man on the front row reared back. "You mean to tell me that artists don't know what the finished product will...
Our culture puts emphasis on feelings, but the New Testament put the emphasis on thinking. Our conversion, for instance, powerfully transforms how we think: "Do not be conformed to this world but...
Several of us who were young pastors once spent an evening with the late Dr. Henrietta Mears, for many years the director...
The March day was crisp and cool, the Thursday of Easter week, when the couple received the news. They were young and with a toddler and another baby on the way. The doctor’s...
