How awesome a God do we serve! One who reveals Himself in the most mystical ways!June 04: CT Scan showed kidney/gall bladder stones. Ultrasound, October, nothing! Yet a treatment indicated that there was something seriously wrong as it worked "to give me the benefit...
Iqbal Masih spent his childhood shackled to a loom in a dingy carpet factory in Pakistan. At the age of four, when his parents hired him out to repay a $16 loan, he worked twelve- to sixteen-hour days, seven days a week, for less than a dollar a month. He never...
Scripture: Come unto me, all you that are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28 (NRSV)Our son was a member of his High School football team and a starting member of the baseball team for his junior and senior year. He had a part time job...
Why had I agreed to go? I posed that question to myself as I reviewed my recent conversation with a church friend. Speeding toward home, I wondered out loud, "Will I ever learn to say no?"That innocent chat at the grocery store resulted in an unwanted commitment....
"Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return to you at the appointed time next year and Sarah will have a son." - Genesis 18:14 In June 1926, Raymond Edman, a twenty-six year old missionary was in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador. He and his wife had been married...
Charles was no stranger to prison life. This was the third time he had been incarcerated in less than 2 years. The police knew him well. Sharing a cell with drug users, thieves, rapists, and murderers, Charles was considered, according to Nepalese law, the worst of...
One stormy night many years ago, an elderly man and his wife entered the lobby of a small hotel in Philadelphia. Trying to get out of the rain, the couple approached the front desk hoping to get some shelter for the night."Could you possibly give us a room here?" The...