While walking to an evening worship service, I saw the soft, warm light from the sanctuary’s stained glass windows glowing in the night. The windows provided a welcome but limited illumination...

For three years I faced one challenge after another. I was diagnosed with burnout and depression, and I had to give up my profession as a teacher. Since then, I have...

As my wife and I prepared for a visit from our new in-laws, we noticed things around the house that hadn’t bothered us before. The dinner plates seemed old, the hardwood...

After I gave a short orientation speech to the parents of our preschool class, three-year-old Miriam told her mother that she liked “the sermon.” Miriam’s father is the pastor of the...

I often think about Abram/Abraham, and his story inspires faithfulness and obedience in me. I relate to his story because my own life story is similar in several ways. Abram was...

My husband and I invited Mina and her husband over for coffee and dessert. They are from Iran and had moved to our small town for graduate studies seven months earlier....

When the future seems uncertain and I don’t know what I can hold on to and trust, I find it helpful to remind myself of three of God’s promises from scripture....

Recently a friend told me of his plan to travel to the other side of Australia to see the wildflowers. I told him of my experiences in the Fitzgerald River National...

An overwhelming number of commitments and a weighty course load left me physically and spiritually exhausted at the end of the college semester. To make matters worse, the weather seemed to...

Backpacking in the Grand Canyon was a dream come true. After weeks of training, I had arrived and was reveling in the beauty. On the fifth and last day, when our...