Couple Uses Wedding Reception to Feed People

When Michigan residents Christine Bouwkamp and Kyle Kramer got married in the spring of 2007, they held a wedding reception that was anything but traditional. ...

Tony Snow on God's Plan

Tony Snow, former press secretary for President George W. Bush, has been battling cancer, off and on, since early 2005. When asked what spiritual lessons ...

Missionaries Survive Plane Crash

On April 15, 2008, Barry and Marybeth Mosier, Seventh-day Adventist missionaries to Tanzania for eight years, climbed aboard a plane bound for Kinsangani, ...

Girl Shows Courage in Haiti

Pastor Mike Breaux tells the following story of when his daughter Jodie answered God's call to go into missions work:

During her junior year of high ...

A Dying Girl Shows Honor of Serving God

Pediatrician David Cerqueira shares a story of how a dying girl showed his church the honor of serving God:

One Sunday my wife had prepared a lesson on ...

Nancy Ortberg Moved by Amputee's Gratitude

Nancy Ortberg writes:

I worked as a registered nurse for about ten years before my life took a different direction. One of my earliest patients was a young ...

Defining Your Calling

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

—Frederick Buechner, U.S. writer and preacher ...

Economist Offers Stunning Prayer

Arthur Burns, a Jewish economist of great influence in Washington during the tenure of several Presidents, was once asked to pray at a gathering of evangelical ...

Chrysostom on Insulting People

We must not mind insulting men, if by respecting them we offend God.

— St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople and Church Father (349–407) ...

Missions Trip Transforms Hospital

In her book Radical Gratitude, Ellen Vaughn tells the story of a family friend named Jerry:

Some years ago Jerry was in Russia on a short visit with Prison ...