Most Christians will eventually experience a crisis of faith, perhaps following the death of someone we love. Fewer of us can relate to standing by as our own child journeys to heaven sooner than we would...

Dr. Judy Ann Mumford has spent years counseling and consoling battle-weary parents. Driven by concern over adolescents’ risky and potentially life-altering behaviors, she began an impassioned search for...

365 Contemplations for Couples Couples can fake their spirituality at church, at work, or with friends, but they cannot fake their Christianity in their home. A vertical relationship with the Lord must...

"I awoke with a knife at my neck and the palpable pounding of a rapist’s heartbeat on my chest." So begins Christ Kitchen—a story about redemption and healing based on the experience that molds the...

Paul wrote to "all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ" (I Cor. 1:2). His instructions were not directed primarily to theologians, pastors, or priests. He wrote to the whole church...

In the 1800s, the term shunpikers was coined for drivers who avoid toll roads at all cost, going out of their way, sometimes many miles, to avoid paying a small fee. The ironic nature of shunpiking is that it...

Honoring a friend lost suddenly to cancer and his devotion to prison ministry, Kay began to share letters of encouragement with an inmate who was a one of the leaders of Christian inmates at Maine State...

As a lifelong Christian, Sarah Wetzel tried everything she knew to grow holier and happier. But as a young mom, laboring alongside her missionary husband high in the Andes Mountains, she came to the painful...

What was it like to literally follow Jesus? Pastor Randy Butler, in his often humorous, down-to-earth manner, helps us catch a fresh vision of what it must have been like to actually follow Christ. Gospel...