God Is Just One Squeal Away

[(Psalms 95:6-7)] always sends me back to the family farm. We raised pigs. We raised about a thousand pigs a year. In one field we had two or three hundred ...

The Gift of Grace Requires a Response

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without ...

In the Father's Arms

Though I was barely 6 years of age, I well remember sitting by a roaring fire on a Sunday during World War 2. Our family had fled the bombs that rained ...

Fear of Falling

In May 1995, Randy Reid, a 34-year-old construction worker, was welding on top of a nearly completed water tower outside Chicago. According to writer ...

Christ's Undisputed Control

Suppose you are alone in your house with your preschool children, and an intruder enters. If you doubt your power over the intruder, your house becomes ...

Good News for Presbyterians

I listened casually as my 9-year-old son recited the bicycle safety rules he had to memorize for a scouting merit badge.

"Obey all traffic rules. Drive ...

Lock Your Car

Trust in God but lock your car.

The Weak Man Behind "A Mighty Fortress"

The "Weak" Man behind "A Mighty Fortress"

In intense turmoil, Luther wrote his greatest hymn.

It was the worst of times--1527--one of ...

A Bedtime Prayer

Be off, Satan, from this floor and from these four walls. This is no place for you; there is nothing for you to do here. This is the place for Peter and ...

Prayer Is the Key

In the morning, prayer is the key that opens to us the treasures of God's mercies and blessings; in the evening, it is the key that shuts us up under ...