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 ...

"Shadowlands": Prayer Changes Us

Shadowlands portrays the joy and pain of the relationship between C. S. Lewis and American writer Joy Gresham. A growing friendship led to a marriage ...

Biker Delivered from Mouth of Lion

"Once he started clamping down, I remember thinking, This is it. I'm going to die." These were Anne Hjelle's words in an interview with ...

Mother's Unanswered Prayer for Self-Improvement

We all know what it's like to still have growing to do.

Jeanne Olsen, a mother of five from Illinois, took her daughter Kirsten, age 9, out for a mother-daughter ...

Self-Centered Life Is Prison

Those people who pray know what most around them either don't know or choose to ignore: centering life in the insatiable demands of the ego is the ...

Prisoner Gets Freedom by Asking

In 1998, 40-year-old Reynaldo Tovar-Valdivia was arrested for possessing methamphetamines with intent to distribute. Upon pleading guilty, he was sentenced ...

What Prayer Means to President Bush

"Prayer is central to the lives of countless Americans, including Laura's and mine. We have been blessed by the prayers of millions of Americans. ...

300 Men Confess Pride

During the Great Awakening, when the Spirit of God revived much of our nation's early faith, Jonathan Edwards was presiding over a massive prayer ...

Success on Any Path

Some things make you successful whatever path you take--whether you're on the "mommy track" or in a full-time career outside the home. You ...

Souls Without Prayer Are Paralyzed

Souls without prayer are like people whose bodies or limbs are paralyzed: they possess feet and hands but they cannot control them.