Showing 41–60 of 162 results
God’s own witness is above anything we could ever muster up ourselves.
One circle contained the words “comfort zone”; the other circle contained the word “faith.” Then, the challenge: “Which circle do you want to live in?”
Fulbright Fellow Sarah Aziza walks to the edge of despair and back as a teacher in the Middle East.
David Zimmerman has survived leaps of faith, but will this one work out? Read about his recent job change and be encouraged.
Margaret Feinberg urges us to consider what we mean when we pray “in Jesus’ name.” Are we asking for what we want...
When Jesus forbids swearing falsely, he isn’t referring to cursing, but to making deceptive promises. Human beings are experts in the fine...
The Old Testament ends with a curse!
Have you ever had a day go haywire? Customers revolt . . . competitors up to tricks . . . colleagues at cross-purposes? Be assured: God is close by.
Abraham Lincoln told the story of an Eastern monarch who commanded his wise men to create a sentence. This sentence would be cut in stone and always be in view. It must be...
A few weeks ago, I turned 50. As I was approaching 50, I began thinking a lot about all that has happened since I arrived at an American boarding school as a scared fifteen-year-old from Iran.
The summer of 1952 we went to Cape Cod. In all of my five years, we had never traveled so far from home. Summer vacations, up until that time, had meant a visit...
Arthur Andersen, the auditing firm handling Enron, began to unravel as a result of the Enron scandal. Robert Wright was a senior...
The heading of Psalm 102 identifies this psalm as “A prayer of one overwhelmed with trouble, pouring out problems before the LORD”.
My first thought when I began pondering the fraught duo of potential and performance was, “Hang potential.” I’m so tired of hearing about it, of worrying whether I’m living up to my potential,.....
At the end of the Sermon on the Mount, we are told, “Now when Jesus had finished...
In the late 1800s, an ancestor of mine traded a horse and saddle for 2,100 acres of land in the Texas panhandle. Over time, some of his heirs sold their portions of the...
Horatio Spafford suffered three major traumas. His only son died of scarlet fever at age four. In the great Chicago Fire of 1871, the then-prominent businessman was destroyed financially. Soon...
It's easy to praise God when life is good. It's a gorgeous spring day . . . praise the Lord! I just...
Psalm 88 aches with dark despair.
Hebrews chapter 13, verse 5, says “I’ll never leave you nor forsake you.” But when difficult circumstances...
