God Heals Woman's Eyesight

When I was a boy, my sister left our home in Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, and traveled to Central Bible College. She had always had a lifelong problem with ...

Father Encourages Son Through Prayer

John Ashcroft writes:

Many kids wake up to the smell of coffee brewing or the sound of a rooster crowing. My wake-up call was my father's passionate ...

Doctor Moved by Young Boy's Prayer

Tina Blessit writes in Today's Christian:

My 9-year-old son, Austin, had his tonsils removed. Before the surgery, an anesthesiologist came in to start ...

CEO's Prayer Saves a Business

It was 1986, and the world was crashing around David Green. In the offices of his multimillion dollar hobby and craft business, Hobby Lobby, he read the ...

President Makes Phone Number Public

It sounded like a good idea at the time. When Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono wanted to emphasize his desire to help cut through bureaucracy, ...

Church Prays from the Phone Book

In their book Dangerous Intersections, Jay Dennis and Jim Henry write:

Prayer changes things. That’s what a church in Phoenix discovered after the ...

Yard Sale Shows the Value of Time Spent in Prayer

Text: Ephesians 5:15-16

Purpose: To illustrate that we invest our time in lesser things, when we could spend the same time on something priceless.

Props: ...

Coach Influenced by Student's E-Mail

Mike Krzyzewski's decision to remain as coach of the Duke University basketball team rather than to become head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers was ...

Prayer Deters Gossip

We never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray!

—Evangelist Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994)

Pastor's Illness Provides Time for Prayer

Ben Patterson writes:

It came by way of two ruptured lumbar discs. The doctor prescribed six weeks of total rest. The horrible pain prevented me from lying ...