It was Valentine's Day. I was in a new job.My boss walked up to me and handed me a red, heart-shaped balloon, "Happy Valentine's Day, Mike!"My cubicle is one of hundreds in an acre of cubes. If I go to the bathroom, the lunchroom, or am just coming in to start my day,...
A few years ago I woke up with unimaginable pain in my lower back. The pain was so intense that I couldn't even stand up. Now, I do like to sleep, but believe me, not twenty-four hours a day! Doctors could only prescribe heavy pain killers, and my daily visits to the...
Tarin, who had already planted a church among the Kimyal people of the eastern highlands, now felt God's call to venture into a new area, far to the south of Sumo in the lowlands, where the Dekai people lived. After taking a furlough among his own people in the Toll...
Jesus went on a journey to Heaven long ago,After He was tortured much, but loved His people so.The journey I shall take cannot compare to He,Who let His life be taken, to save one like me. He listens to our heartaches and attends to our pain.If it need be, Jesus would...
2 Corinthians 12:7 To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. (NIV)Years ago, I used to go bramble picking with my brothers, usually during the Fall....
Leith Anderson, a minister, shared this experience: As a boy, he grew up outside of New York City and was an avid fan of the old Brooklyn Dodgers. One day his father took him to a World Series game between the Dodgers and the Yankees. He was so excited, and he just...
"Sustained winds of 50 miles per hour and higher," blared the radio.My wife was listening to the radio. She has a love-hate relationship with our Minnesota weather. This has turned her into a bit of a weather junkie. She finds our weather both intriguing and...