Faith

The Christlike mind counts for nothing what the world holds dear and holds as all-important what the world counts for...

**Today is our second devotional from the series "In the Classroom."  How blessed we are to have Elisabeth share her...

Just after the Arab-Israeli war in 1967, I spent ten weeks in Jerusalem. One afternoon I was invited to have...

**This week we continue our quarterly theme of Elisabeth Elliot’s Heroes of the Faith with Part 1 of 2 on...

**This week we continue our quarterly theme of Elisabeth Elliot’s Heroes of the Faith. To discover more about Ms. Trotter’s...

Continued from last weeks devotional… Ezra the prophet, writing four centuries before Christ, knew nothing, of course, of the Cross,...

His popularity with the multitudes aroused jealousy in the teachers of the law. There was much muttering. "He is baptizing and...

"I hardly know where to start," a recent letter begins. "My story is not one involving men. That's the problem....

Sometimes when I was a child my mother or father would say, “Shut your eyes and hold out your hand.” That...

Few of us accomplish without delay or interruption what we set out to accomplish. Plans are made, and they fail....

The great witnesses to faith in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, beginning with Abel, who offered a sacrifice by faith,...

News reports come every day concerning economic and political calamities about to befall us all, not to mention famines, tornadoes,...

Uncertainty is surely, for most of us, one of the harder lessons in faith.  We look ahead and see only...

Some of you are perhaps feeling that you are voyaging just now on a moonless sea.  Uncertainty surrounds you.  There...

Being very much of the earth—earthy—we always want tangible, visible things:  proofs, demonstrations, something to latch on to.  If we...

The power of the Resurrection is a power that vanquishes every other power in heaven or Earth.  The battle was...

“I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry” (Ps 40:1, NIV). The tests of...

Shortly before my daughter Valerie, my only child, went off to college as a freshman, a “sudden tide” came over...

When my brother Dave was very small, we spent a week at the seaside in Belmar, New Jersey.  In vain...

A young woman came in great perplexity to a Scottish preacher, asking how she could resolve the question of her...

While a new year offers us a fresh start, it can also bring anxiety.  Questions crowd into our minds.  Will...

When Jesus was speaking with His disciples before His crucifixion, He gave them His parting gift:  peace such as the...