Woman Throws Engagement Ring

One fine day in 1941, Violet Bailey and her fiancé Samuel Booth were strolling through the English countryside, deeply in love and engaged to be ...

God Can Use Any Person

Lorne Sanny writes:

Before I met Charlie Riggs, he had worked for seven years as a roughneck in the oil fields of Pennsylvania. Social graces weren't ...

"Princess Diaries": Reluctant Royalty

The Princess Diaries tells the story of Amelia Thermopolis, a shy, awkward teen whose only goal in life is to be invisible. She tries to get through each ...

Glad to Be Chosen

Entertainer Garrison Keilor recalls the childhood pain of being chosen last for the baseball teams.

The captains are down to their last grudging choices: ...

Constant Gratitude

You have to celebrate your chosenness constantly. This means saying "thank you" to God for having chosen you, and "thank you" to all ...

Political "Reform"

There is nothing quite like a presidential election year to reveal how empty and dissatisfying our political process has become. ... Television has taken ...

Two Mysteries

Poets have a way of stating mysteries in such a fashion as to make them both memorable and a permanent part of human reflection. A. E. Housman queried: ...

God's Sovereignty and Man's Will

In Knowledge of the Holy, A. W. Tozer attempts to reconcile the seemingly contradictory beliefs of God's sovereignty and man's free will:

"An ...

Grasping Election and Free Will

During his days as guest lecturer at Calvin Seminary, R. B. Kuiper once used the following illustration of God's sovereignty and human responsibility: ...