Purposeful Prayer & More

After a while, Tristan grew comfortable with Jesus driving, so he looked out the window again. The same old distractions were still there, and Tristan found himself looking at Jesus less and less. Then he realized the car was...

One day, while watching a child play with a toy in our neighborhood, the Holy Spirit asked me an unexpected question: “What did the child do to...

Eugene P. Deatrick, the former head of the soils department at West Virginia University, has a different take. He argues that when Jesus speaks of salt in Matthew 5:13, Mark 9:50, and Luke 14:34–35, He is not speaking of salt’s household use but of its...

Contrary to popular belief, the Ten Commandments did not originate at Mt. Sinai or in the Old Covenant; they were instilled at...

We celebrate the birth of our country on July 4. Our forefathers put the broad principles of civil and religious liberty into writing. However, this legacy of freedom began...

Right there in my prayer, I made a simple but sincere invitation. I said: “Lord Jesus, just as You were invited to that wedding and You performed a miracle when the need arose, I invite You into my situation right now. Please stretch out Your hand and...

I remember planting what I believed were cantaloupe seeds in my garden one spring. The package clearly indicated them as cantaloupes, and I expected to harvest ripe cantaloupes in late summer. However, somehow the label was mistaken, and I ended up growing...

"Don’t you want to submit your will to God now? ‘I can‘t’, he replied. ‘Are you willing for God to do it for you?’ ‘Yes’, he answered. ‘Then ask Him to do it.’ He prayed: ‘Oh God, empty me from my own will. Bring me into...'"

At a summer Vacation Bible School in the Upper Midwest, Cheryl taught about the prayers of George Müller. Many non-church member children attended, and Cheryl’s friend Abbie shuttled seven of them. On the way home from one of the meetings, one kid exclaimed, “I want...

He concluded that if I had driven onto the highway at 70 mph, I might have experienced a...

I felt impressed to give her a book, but the timing felt terribly awkward. She was busy, and I didn’t want to cause a scene. Still, the impression persisted. I asked another worker to find our waitress and...

It was a week before our wedding. We had 250 people coming, but we had no food! Let’s rewind 6 months. Philip and I had become engaged on a beautiful fall afternoon. After he popped the question, we...