Knowing God through Suffering

Doctors and nurses were doing everything possible for my wife, the mother of my seven children, yet I could see the hopelessness in their faces. Through ...

Radical Trust and Obedience

Fort Bragg, North Carolina: A likely clerical error sent a supply clerk with the 82nd Airborne Division out the door of an airplane on his first parachute ...

Part of a Bigger Plan

Faith gets tested when a sense of God's presence fades or when the very ordinances of life make us question whether our responses even matter.

We wonder, ...

Power of Curiosity

In For the Time Being, Pulitzer Prize winning author Annie Dillard writes:

In Highland New Guinea, now Papua New Guinea, a British district officer named ...

Oxymoron: Childlike Journalist

In Something Beautiful for God, longtime British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge tells how he met Mother Teresa while filming a BBC documentary about her ...

Asking God Why

It is always best to go first for our answers to Jesus himself. He cried out on the cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" It was ...

Albert Einstein and Mysteries

In Albert Einstein's early days physicists had scratched their heads for some 50 years over the unexplainable orbit of the planet Mercury. Newton's theories ...

Never Say "Why Me?"

I can honestly say I never said, "Why me?" There are two ways you can react to something like this. you can say, "Why me, God? Why me?" ...

Pieces of the Puzzle

At the San Diego Padres baseball games, between innings once in a while, they put a little puzzle on the score board. They have the outline of a baseball ...

The Mystery of God

I think there are two very heartening things about our day. First, we are all admitting we need some answers. That in itself is encouraging. We are asking. ...