God Provides Big and Small

In the mid 1980s, my family moved to northern Saskatchewan to start a church. As a church planter, part of my support was funded by the local mission. ...

One More Prayer

19th Century preacher and author A. B. Simpson gives a wonderful example of the power of accumulative prayer. In the city of Rangoon resided the largest ...

Avoiding Uncertainty

"Most people prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty."

A Plan for Everyone

Simon Birch (a movie based on the novel A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving) is the story of a 12-year-old boy named Simon Birch who, despite his physical ...

Gulf War Miracle

General Charles Krulak (USMC, retired) had this story to tell about his experience in the Gulf War in 1991:

There is a precious commodity in the Middle ...

William Carey: Trust Despite Loss

William Carey, often called the father of modern missions, faced a ministry disappointment of overwhelming proportions. Carey began his missionary career ...

Purpose of Pain

In The Case For Faith, Lee Strobel records a dialogue between himself and author/philosopher Peter Kreeft:

"How can a mere finite human be sure that ...

Keeping Discouragement at Bay

A man stopped to watch a Little League baseball game. He asked one of the youngsters what the score was. "We're losing 18-0," was the answer. ...

God's Will at Work

In December, 1958, I came to America from Germany on the USS Butner, a transport ship. After we left Bremerhafen we passed through the North Sea into ...

Lewis and Clark: Small Beginnings

In 1804, Thomas Jefferson commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to find the source of the Missouri River, and from there to discover a relatively ...