Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.
But, in the words of a Portuguese proverb, God writes straight with crooked lines, and He is far more interested in getting us where He wants us to be than we are in getting there. He does not discuss...
A wedding is a celebration of marriage, of an institution ordained by God at the creation of man, to be entered into with solemnity as well as with joy.
So the woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts...
Señor Jaime, said little Moquetin, a bright-eyed imp of six, why is it that your face is always red? Jim countered, Why is it that your face is always brown? Because it is much prettier that way, was...
Eve's daughters are as flowers and none can ever say they are through unfolding. And what man can predict the consummate end of such a life when its ultimate center is Sharon's Rose?
Discipline is the wholehearted yes to the call of God. When I know myself called, summoned, addressed, taken possession of, known, acted upon, I have heard the Master. I put myself gladly, fully, and...
All the Scriptural metaphors about the death of the seed that falls into the ground, about losing one’s life, about becoming the least in the kingdom, about the world’s passing away—all these go on to...
We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high pri...
The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.
Amy rang the bell when morning to gather the servants for prayers. The cook's small boy, pointing to the bell, said, It's a god.'I looked at the thing, it had a scratched face on the handle, and the f...
How long Lord must I wait?Nevermind child, trust me.
Do the next thing. I don’t know any simpler formula for peace, for relief from stress and anxiety than that very practical, very down-to-earth word of wisdom. Do the next thing. That has gotten me thr...