How to Deal with Personal Agendas

One day an Anglican priest came to our church to talk with me and pray for me, and I wasn't in. He asked the secretary if he could go into our sanctuary ...

Love Despite the Odds

In 1995, Christopher Reeve, the "Superman" actor, fell from a horse in a riding accident that severed his spinal cord and paralyzed him from ...

Love's Nourishment

Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all life's hazards, save one--neglect.

Free Gift of Love

Love is ... a free gift. ... And it is most itself, most free when it is offered in spite of suffering, of injustice, and of death.

Passion for Fidelity

The instinct of fidelity is perhaps the deepest instinct in the great complex we call sex. Where there is real sex there is the underlying passion for ...

Life's Most Powerful Force

The Christian business person attracts people to Christ by serving need, not greed. When we do something to meet someone's need, he will ask why we ...

Good Company

Twila Paris, winner of the 1993 and 1994 Dove Award for Female Vocalist of the Year, credits her parents for giving her a sense of self-worth and confidence. ...

Love Wins Souls

If you can really make a man believe you love him, you have won him; and if I could only make people really believe that God loves them, what a rush we ...

Love Like a River

Recently I was sent a picture of a jug into which water was being poured. The idea was that love, or whatever we need, is poured into us like that. I ...

Because He Loves Me

One evening, while putting my daughter, Carla, to bed, I asked her what it was like to be four years old. She said, "It's special."

"Why ...