Weekly Devotionals in Encouragement
Weekly Devotionals
A Call to Older Women – Part One
**We continue this quarters theme of Elisabeth Elliot’s Heroes of the Faith. In 1948 when I had been at Prairie...
Weekly Devotionals
At Every Stage of the Journey
What matters in life is that we should stick with the Lord. Where He goes, we follow. When He says halt,...
Weekly Devotionals
How Do We Know We Are Called?
We need never ask the question, "How do I know I'm called?" We ought rather to ask, "How do I...
Weekly Devotionals
Discipline: The Answer to God’s Call
As a child in a Christian home, I did not start out with an understanding of the word discipline. I simply knew...
Weekly Devotionals
Encouragement
Called to be holy. If fathers of families could keep ever before their eyes this single high purpose toward which they...
Weekly Devotionals
Strength for What’s Coming
“You shall observe all that I command you this day, so that you may have strength to enter and occupy...
Weekly Devotionals
Moonless Trust
Some of you are perhaps feeling that you are voyaging just now on a moonless sea. Uncertainty surrounds you. There...
Weekly Devotionals
When the River Bursts
Psychologists chart stress factors related to various kinds of emotional trauma and the response of different people to those factors—death,...
Weekly Devotionals
Take Strength
These strong, simple words can be spiritual adrenaline for us when we need them. They were written by a man...
Weekly Devotionals
Sudden Change
Suddenly it happens that a source of life or joy or refreshment is cut off? The supply dries up and...
Weekly Devotionals
Invisible Blessings
Being very much of the earth—earthy—we always want tangible, visible things: proofs, demonstrations, something to latch on to. If we...
Weekly Devotionals
New England Spring
Although it barely feels like spring in New England at present, in honor of the First Day of Spring we bring you, in the midst...
Weekly Devotionals
A Strange Peace
Shortly before my daughter Valerie, my only child, went off to college as a freshman, a “sudden tide” came over...
Weekly Devotionals
All Things Serve Thee
The Lord’s decrees (His promises, His plans, His every word) stand fast, no matter what news we receive. A child...
Weekly Devotionals
Learning the Father’s Love
When my brother Dave was very small, we spent a week at the seaside in Belmar, New Jersey. In vain...
Weekly Devotionals
How to Discover What God Wants
A young woman came in great perplexity to a Scottish preacher, asking how she could resolve the question of her...
Weekly Devotionals
The Future Is Not Our Province
While a new year offers us a fresh start, it can also bring anxiety. Questions crowd into our minds. Will...
Weekly Devotionals
The World Must Be Shown
When Jesus was speaking with His disciples before His crucifixion, He gave them His parting gift: peace such as the...
Newsletters
To a New Widow
Dearest one: I know the proportion of that pain, and there is no minimizing it here and now. I also...