The Fruits of Worry

It is always weakness to be fretting and worrying, questioning and mistrusting. What can we do if we wear ourselves to skin and bone? Can we gain anything ...

Skiing Blind for Christ

On a recent ski trip, I saw to my surprise a blind person skiing. The blind skier, wearing a bright pink vest, stayed directly behind an instructor, listening ...

Learning to Fly

In Run with the Horses, Eugene Peterson writes about seeing a family of birds teaching the young to fly. Three young swallows were perched on a dead branch ...

Resisting God's Miracles

When [our son] John Mark was 4 years old, he was out playing in the back yard and got a splinter in his foot. He came in and held up his foot. He was ...

Faith Means Never Having to Ask Directions

All of us have had that experience of driving to some friends' house in an area where we have never been before. Often you've had to drive a long ...

Take the Hand of God

Many years ago, King George VI of England addressed the British commonwealth on New Year's Eve at a moment in history when the whole world stood on ...

The Art of Letting Go

To let go is not to care for, but to care about.

To let go is not to fix, but to be supportive.

To let go is not to judge, but to allow another to be a ...

Misguided Requests

Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.

Anxiety and Faith Are Incompatible

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.