When I was 25, I was on a road trip with an old missionary friend and Baptist minister we called Papa Don Mitchetll. We were on our way back from Tulsa for his son's wedding, and he was taking me home again to Reno. His wife did not want him to travel alone as he had...
You know the Bible verse that talks about being hospitable to strangers, "for in doing so some have entertained angels"?Well, each week as I go to and from my writing group I pass a young Eastern European man selling a "The Big Issue" (a magazine sold by homeless...
"When I was in my twenties," writes Virginia, "I had three little girls, and one on the way. I had gone to visit my mother, and stayed until mid-afternoon." By the time she decided to leave, however, the sky was darkening. Rain was definitely on the way.Should she...
There were ten thousand angels all around the cross;They were there to protect Him no matter what the cost.They prayed to the Father....please set our Savior free;God said: hush now my children, for it’s not meant to be. There were ten thousand angels on Calvary’s...
Psalm 91:11-12 - For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. (NIV)Do you believe in angels? Do they really exist? These questions ran through...
Steve explained that despite his mother being 93 years old, she still visited needy people, and would bring food, medicine or anything else they needed. One day she had been in a house where the driveway wound through heavy brush and trees right into a very busy...
"Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father . . . So don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows." (Matthew 10:29,31 NIV)Several years ago, when my family's bird population numbered...