Posts in category For the Heart

Boaz woke up one evening with a lovely, god-fearing woman lying at his feet begging him to marry her! How in the world did he manage that?

This summer I conducted a little social experiment by asking a room full of Junior-High Christian girls the following question: “Raise your hand if you’ve …

If we are truly to offer up desires that are agreeable to his will, in the name of Christ, with confession of our sins, and with thankful acknowledgment of his mercies, we should habitually pray the text of Scripture.

Grace isn’t content merely to be a comforter, it wants to be a potentate.

Last week I saw the face of my third child as she came into the world. As with our two sons, we decided to wait …

When the wedding ceremony is over there are some things that true love doesn’t wait for.

If Paul had planted perfect churches, we might have the mistaken notion that the power for healthy churches died with the apostles, and that the best we can do now is to try to get back to the model of those early churches. In reality, however, the “power” for healthy churches and healthy Christians is just as alive today as He was in the first century. As Paul himself put it: “I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.”

Doubt is debilitating. One author recounts the struggles of a girl named Laura who felt that she couldn’t believe: “I don’t know’. I can’t do …

In a previous post, I suggested that our natural tendency is to put other people somewhere along an imaginary line, stretched between the two poles …

The people whose examples stir me most are dead now—at least their bodies don’t live on the earth anymore. But I can still take walks with them by reading their biographies. Here are snippets from the writings of several men whose examples never fail to stir me, correct me, and excite my hunger for God.