The clerk at the checkout stand smiled broadly, her voice a bit too cheerful: “That will be $145.39!”I forced myself to smile back. After all, it wasn’t her fault that my grocery bill seemed to go up every week, no matter how much skimping I did! I reached in my...
As I write this praise report, I can say boldly that God is bigger than all our questions. There is always an end intended by God for every question we may have (James 5:11). I realize as a Christian I have had the tendency, as we all sometimes have to think we don’t...
Frank SanGregory of Tiffin, Ohio, was getting ready for work. He was on the afternoon shift so although his daughter Theresa and his almost-two-year-old grandson, Josh, were finishing lunch downstairs in the kitchen with Grandma, Frank had gone upstairs to shave....
The dirty gray clouds hung so low it seemed you could reach up and touch them. It was spitting a few flakes of snow and the temperature was in the 20s.The winter of 1940 was cold in the mountains. It was a bone chilling, face freezing, penetrating kind of cold.Lilly...
"What is impossible with men is possible with God." (Luke 18:27 NIV)Circumstances can turn sour, leaving us haggard and confused.My son's phone call last Sunday left me feeling this way. A mixed up had occurred with the transfer of RESP funds for paying his second...
Psalm 75:1,9 - We thank You, O God! We give thanks because You are near. People everywhere tell of Your mighty miracles. But as for me, I will always proclaim what God has done; I will sing praises to the God of Israel. (NLT 1996)A friend of mine who is a worship...
When Thomas Stevens was 22, he had a serious accident. He fell toward a window, and put his arms out to break the fall. Instead, his left arm went through the glass and he severed most of its tendons and arteries. His then-girlfriend, Sarah, had the presence of mind...
