Woman Lives Without Power for 15 Years

When a hurricane hit South Florida, Norena's home was one of many that was severely damaged. The elderly woman received an insurance settlement, and ...

The (Not So) Terrible Year

I'm sitting in yet another hospital waiting room.

Ever since my husband, Barry, first underwent open heart and quadruple bypass surgery 15 months ago, ...

A New Life from One Red Paperclip

Stuck in a dead-end job and strapped for money, Kyle MacDonald came up with an improbable plan: starting with one red paperclip, he would trade on the ...

Sitting with God on the Bathroom Floor

In his book The Pressure's Off, psychologist Larry Crabb uses a story from his childhood to illustrate our need to delight in God through adversity: ...

Food Takes Smaller Portion of Budget

The percentage of disposable personal income Americans spent on food in 1935: 24.2 percent

The percentage of disposable personal income Americans spent ...

Missionary Rewarded for Saying "Thank You"

James Baird related in a sermon:

When we started the PCA (Presbyterian Church in American) in 1973, we had no money—not a dime—and we were ...

Come to God with a Bucket

Nancy Spiegelberg writes in Our Daily Bread:

Lord, I crawled across the bareness to you with my empty cup, uncertain in asking any small drop of refreshment. ...

Katrina Victims Didn't Want Rescuing

Helicopter pilot Iain McConnell, along with the rest of his air station crew, was summoned at 4 a.m. on the morning of August 30, 2005, to the Coast Guard ...

God Precisely Supplies a Woman's Need

Lois Spoon writes in "Divine Calculation: My Prayer Was Answered by Someone's Pocket Change”:

Time was running out. I needed $153.27 by ...

$20 Arrives as Answer to Couple's Prayer

Author Elmer Towns writes:

My wife and I went through college by faith. If we had not prayed together daily through all our difficulties, I don't know ...