Lee Strobel Impressed by Impoverished Family's Example

While working as a journalist for the Chicago Tribune, Lee Strobel was assigned to report on the struggles of an impoverished, inner-city family during ...

Tony Blair Defends God's Goodness

As many in Britain have reflected on the life and leadership of Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997–2007), stories have ...

Relying on a Resurrecting God

We are not to be surprised if living as Christians brings us to the place where we find we are at the end of our own resources, and that we are called ...

Jesus Prays for Us

In his book entitled Prayer, Philip Yancey writes:

As Jesus once prayed for Peter, now he prays for us… In fact, the New Testament's only glimpse ...

God on Trial

It is not uncommon for people to shake their fists at God in the midst of tragedy and suffering. The Bible includes the stories of righteous men who questioned ...

David Livingstone Lost a Goat, but Gained a Scepter

The great missionary explorer, David Livingstone, served in Africa from 1840 until his death in 1873. Pastors Robert Lewis and Wayne Cordeiro tell of ...

Dying Woman Clings to High Priest

Bishop and author William Willimon tells of an encounter he once had with a dying woman:

She was in the last stages of lung cancer, gasping day after day ...

Absent from the Body, Present with the Lord

The funeral for Pastor Bob Russell's father was held on a cold, blustery day in Pennsylvania. The roads were too bad for cars to go to the cemetery ...

Archbishop Richard Trench on Prayer

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance … it is laying hold of his highest willingness.

—Archbishop Richard Trench

Woman Loses Sight but Keeps the Faith

Singer-songwriter and author Jennifer Rothschild shares her story in Decision magazine:

As a little girl, I was captivated by colors. I loved to get the ...