Evening and Morning

The Hebrew evening/morning sequence conditions us to the rhythms of grace. We go to sleep, and God begins his work. ... We wake into a world we didn't ...

Forgiveness Is Costly

There is one eternal principle which will be valid as long as the world lasts. The principle is--Forgiveness is a costly thing. Human forgiveness is costly. ...

Running in the Wrong Direction

The story of "Wrong Way Riegels" is a familiar one, but it bears repeating.

On New Year's Day, 1929, Georgia Tech played UCLA in the Rose Bowl. In that ...

Deformed by Sin

In The Whisper Test, Mary Ann Bird writes: I grew up knowing I was different, and I hated it. I was born with a cleft palate, and when I started school, ...

Daddy's Baby's Come Home

On a short flight from Tucson to Phoenix, I noticed a young woman with her baby. They were both dressed in white pinafores. The mother was smiling, and ...

Gifts Can Be Difficult to Accept

Reader's Digest wrote of the late Harvey Penick: "For 90-year-old golf pro Harvey Penick, success has come late. His first golf book, Harvey ...

Choosing Redemption over Revenge

Al Masters lives at the other end of our state. He's married and had a little boy and a small business. He considered himself very blessed. And then just ...

Useless Ideals

Quite frankly, I'm sick to death of ideals. I have so many ideals and I've been so frustrated by them, I really don't care for any more. What ...

A Gift of Skin

An article in the National Geographic (9/91) tells of a young man from Hanover, Pennsylvania, who was badly burned in a boiler explosion. To save his ...

Redemption Is a Conscious Choice

Redemption is a conscious choice to serve the Lord, and that act is a denial.