School Principal Calms an Angry Father

A man received notice that his son, during his senior year in high school, had failed a course. The father, determined that his son would attend the best ...

Suffering Makes God Known to Us

The fundamental lesson of the book of Job, like that of the Bible as a whole, is quite simple: our sole hope and only anchor in the midst of suffering ...

God Turns Dobson's Failure into Success

Concerned about the disintegration of the home and the increased divorce rate, James Dobson, at the time a little-known psychologist of a southern California ...

Principal Takes Student's Punishment

A modern parable: At a parochial middle school, a boy stands with back arched and hands clenched. "Go ahead, give it to me," he says.

The principal ...

God Celebrates Our Arrival

I remember being touched by the popular song "Tie a Yellow Ribbon." It tells of a man who's been sent to prison. He's served his time ...

Can't Earn Heaven

An old tale speaks of a man who died and faced the angel Gabriel at heaven's gates. The angel said, "Here's how this works. You need a hundred ...

Bible's Big Picture

In her book Mystery on the Desert, Maria Reiche describes a series of strange lines made by the Nazea in the plains of Peru, some of them covering many ...

Uniqueness of Grace

In What's So Amazing about Grace, Philip Yancey recounts this story about C.S. Lewis:

During a British conference on comparative religions, experts ...

John Newton, author of "Amazing Grace"

John Newton (1725-1807)

A "wretch" who found "Amazing Grace!"

John Newton was nurtured by a devoted Christian mother who dreamed that ...

Why Grace Is Amazing

Why do we call grace amazing? Grace is amazing because it works against the grain of common sense. Hard-nosed common sense will tell you that you are ...