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God uses people as audiovisual aids to strengthen others. But wait: Does it mean that the inspiring person is nothing more than an object lesson from which others can learn? Is that person’s example only for everybody...

Chris is a middle-aged man with Down’s syndrome who lives with his folks. He enjoys volunteering with Awana and taking part in various socials at church. And he’s blessed with an unusual gift: he doesn’t understand time...

Press on, friend. The Bible is full of exhortations to press on no matter what the circumstances. Judy Rice presses on. She wrote me recently, “Joni, your daily devotional Diamonds in the Dust has become my constant companion as I sit....

I’m not like Paul; I’m not in prison—far from it! But I can identify with the bolts and bars of a prison cell. This wheelchair is made of a lot of metal, and...

The Scripture for today offers words of comfort when it says we are God’s chosen ones. In fact, Jesus reminds us that we have not chosen him, but he has chosen us. He has chosen us to serve and worship him...

God has this thing about showing compassion on whomever he wants. Sometimes we don’t like that. The nerve of God to save that child abuser, to reach out to that rapist on death row, to show compassion...

This summer my friend Bev and her family hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. The weather forecaster had said the temperatures would hit the nineties, so Bev, her husband, and their children left their camping spot...