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The alarm buzzes. It’s 2 am. My husband and I rise, silent in the dark. We fumble for our clothes, put on...
Bobby was a farm kid who went into town to see the circus. His father gave him a dollar with instructions to spend it wisely.
I’ve been to places in Africa where having a little extra money meant a mother had enough to buy meat and bread...
In what feels now like another lifetime, I was a minister. I’m not a minister anymore but I am called upon from time to time to resurrect that role and speak the words...
"American evangelicals have been rediscovering the precious truth that all honest work serves as a spiritual calling to fruitful and worshipful service," writes Greg Forster on Christianity Today's...
Remember when only the winners got trophies for participating in an activity? Author and researcher Ashley Merryman believes we need to return to that philosophy. In the New York Times, she writes, ...
I loved you instantly, of course. ...
God gave me a vision of her: a woman who wore scarves and laughed a lot. ...
The 4 a.m. wake-up call was early. Too early. But for three men on the hunt for fish, it was a small price to pay. ...
It was a big day for Debbi—the grand opening of her small business. Banking on a cookie recipe, she’d rented a storefront and turned on the lights. And who came in? No one...
Shortly after Jesus began his ministry in Capernaum, he arose early one morning to find an isolated place where he could pray...
Recently, we signed up both of our boys (Wyatt 11, Seth 9) for the University of Virginia Junior Tennis Team camp—six weeks of daily tennis instruction and summer fun. I wanted the boys to receive...
The burden a parent feels in naming their child floated to the top of our collective consciousness this last week, when the...
Jennifer Dukes Lee and her 11-year-old daughter Lydia enjoy passing notes back and forth. Today, they are writing to each other in this space, opening a window into their world.
For me, finding faith was a big thing. But finding purpose and meaning in my faith was even bigger. Transferring that to...
Editorial Note: We think it’s worth revealing a few plot points to consider the power of fatherhood, but please note that you...
"We’ve been told that productivity is all, that rushing is an imperative, that going and doing and pushing define us. But those things aren’t true. God made a world of extraordinary beauty, and.....
It's important to understand that in the creation narrative, before sin ever entered into the world, Adam was to tend the garden.
St. Charles Borromeos was one night with a group of people playing chess. This was a social evening; they sat playing chess. And somebody injected into the conversation that evening, "If you were...
For Christians, everything matters, because we believe that God is at work in our world...and in our lives.
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