"What if I get motion sickness? Are you going to help me pack? What if I'm not up to handling the taxing conditions, heat, and humidity? What must I do when I go through security and customs? How much can my bag weigh?"All questions my mother had before leaving on a...
How can I let People See Christ in me?Are you pondering whether or not you are making a difference in this world? Do you find yourself often discouraged and at times shocked about your lack of zeal? Has this question ever haunted the recesses of your mind: "Do people...
"Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, So shall your offspring be. Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead-since he was about a hundred years...
There it was, just ahead of me on the sidewalk: a familiar, bright yellow dandelion, the harbinger of spring, growing out of a narrow crack in the concrete pavement. Somehow, a lone seed from the previous year had landed in the crack and found enough fertile soil to...
In August, our family spent a week on the coast of Oregon, U.S.A. Each day, we observed the power of the waves coming in off the open Pacific Ocean, and each night, we camped within the sound of their roaring. As I played with the children on the sandy beaches, being...
Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” Acts 16:30-31Abdi Ali Hamzah was a member of Islam who became Pastor Jamal, a Christian missionary.As a...
I was so tired of walking the mall from store to store. I just wanted to sit down and wait for the girls. I saw a bench with an old man sitting there and he smiled as I walked over to sit down. I smiled back. He looked safe.As I sat down he looked at me and said, “Do...