But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering and abundant in mercy and truth. Psalm 86:15 Being a parent is perhaps the world’s best laboratory for learning patience. In fact, the younger the children, the greater the need for parental patience. Young children make the same bad choices over and… Read More »

At one time we too were foolish, disobedient…. Being hated and hating one another. But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us. Titus 3:3-5, NIV Christians are sometimes accused of hatred for their refusal to yield on biblical truth. We must never be what others accuse us of being.… Read More »

When He gives quietness, who then can make trouble? Job 34:29 One day in 1947, when Elisabeth Elliott was a student at Wheaton College, she was sitting near a friend at the piano in one of the campus buildings. Elisabeth had written a short poem, and her friend composed a melody on the spot. Over… Read More »

If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself. 2 Timothy 2:13 Talk about “cleanup on aisle 5!” A truck in Memphis, Tennessee, hit a retaining wall and crashed, spilling its load of Bertolli alfredo sauce. The road was closed as workers struggled to clean up the sticky, high-calorie sauce and the thousands… Read More »

For I am the Lord, I do not change. Malachi 3:6 During Operation Iraqi Freedom, Lt. Carey H. Cash was chaplain to a battalion of frontline combat Marines. In his memoir, A Table in the Presence, he spoke of praying with his troops. “Our prayers were simple,” he wrote, “but they were exactly what we all needed.… Read More »

All things…for good. Romans 8:28 Andrew McCutchen is an outfielder, currently playing for the Milwaukee Brewers, whose milestones include scoring over 1,000 career runs and 350 doubles. Along the way, he’s had his share of injuries, defeats, aches, and pains. But McCutchen is an outspoken Christian who has learned to deal with adversity by trusting… Read More »

So He said to them, “When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.” Luke 11:2 One of the tiniest books in the world recently sold at a Brussels auction for more than four thousand euros. Published in 1952 by the Gutenberg Museum in Germany, it was part of a fundraising drive… Read More »

However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 1 Corinthians 2:6 In the third century B.C., Alexandria, Egypt, was the intellectual capital of the world. This was due in no small part to the Great… Read More »

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. 1 Peter 2:9 If you browsed through The Economic Times last October, perhaps you saw the editorial titled “Life Has No… Read More »

The Lord is…longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9 Think about the wars, acts of terror, onslaughts of savagery against innocent people, government-sponsored acts of genocide throughout history—it’s almost more than our sensibilities can bear when we consider how humanity has broken the… Read More »