Hope Sees Past and Future

Hope stands up to its knees in the past and keeps its eyes on the future. There has never been a time past when God wasn't with us as the strength ...

Prayer Isn't Resignation

Folding our hands in prayer is not an act of resignation. Prayer does not lead us to accept every circumstance with passive calm.

Faith Despite Hunger

Faith on a full stomach may be simply contentment--but if you have it when you're hungry, it's genuine.

Trustworthy Christians

In Living Above the Level of Mediocrity, Chuck Swindoll writes:

On Sunday, believers arrived at a house church in the Soviet Union in small groups throughout ...

Finding a Fixed Point

On day six of the ill-fated mission of Apollo 13, the astronauts needed to make a critical course correction. If they failed, they might never return ...

Patience in Marriage

Patience in marriage works a lot like faith. It demonstrates the certainty that what we hope for--physical, emotional, spiritual oneness--is waiting for ...

Keep Hope Alive

A couple of weeks ago, as I was driving away from the Los Angeles airport, a huge, brilliantly illuminated billboard arrested my attention. It carried ...

Faith is the Glue

The people who jest about faith don't realize how big a part it plays in everyday affairs. It takes faith to get married because marriage vows are ...

What Makes Satan Tremble

Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.

Limiting God

Is it not a frightening truth that the free will of a bad man can resist the will of God? For He has, after a fashion, restricted His own Omnipotence ...