Administering Medicine Through Skin

Our skin is soft, like tightly woven fabric. It appears porous from the outside—with millions of tiny openings that ooze sweat. But you might be ...

Sticking with the Pokey Little Church

For all of its foibles—lousy preaching, political infighting, self-centered focus, stagnation, a gaggle of special interest groups—the pokey ...

Jonathan Edwards on God's Surprising Ways

[Jonathan] Edwards first encountered God in an intensely experiential way while reading 1 Timothy 1:17: "Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, ...

Oswald Chambers on Fear

Missionary Oswald Chambers said:

It is the most natural thing in the world to be scared, and the clearest evidence that God's grace is at work in our ...

Home Saved from Forest Fire

Last summer, a friend noticed that a forest fire had started on the mountain ridge above our home. I called 911 and was told it was under control.

But ...

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 ...