Selflessness
Weekly Devotionals
Under Orders: Part 2
When I was in college, it was the custom when the yearbook came out to ask one’s friends to autograph...
Weekly Devotionals
Under Orders: Part 1
Christian discipline means placing oneself under orders. It is no mere business of self-improvement, to be listed along with speed-reading,...
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
Interruptions, Delays, Inconveniences
Emily, wife of America's first foreign missionary, Adoniram Judson, wrote home from Moulmein, Burma, in January 1847: "This taking care of...
Weekly Devotionals
Discerning the Call of God
As a little girl I especially loved the story of God’s call to the child Samuel as he lay sleeping...
Newsletters
A Holy Aloneness
When God had completed the prodigious labor of the creation of the heavens and the earth, He saw that something...
Newsletters
Not to Be Loved but to Love
The concept of self-love, propogated as though it were something we must all learn (it was a remarkably easy lesson...
Newsletters
My Life for Yours
. . . "I feel somewhat akin to you. My husband went in obedience to God, well aware of the...