Acceptable Praise
Have you ever watched an infant caress his mother? He “goos” and “gaahs,” slobbering his affection all over her cheek. He laughs in her arms, breaks into a squeal, and spits a “brrrrh!” of curdled milk into her face...
Have you ever watched an infant caress his mother? He “goos” and “gaahs,” slobbering his affection all over her cheek. He laughs in her arms, breaks into a squeal, and spits a “brrrrh!” of curdled milk into her face...
Behind Jesus’ rough cloak and beard, behind his simple conversations with neighbors, behind the humble circumstances surrounding his life, powerful things were going on. Things of universal importance. Even as Jesus plodded the dirt...
Who’s the person in whom God is ready to work? Who’s prepared for revival? My friend Nancy Leigh DeMoss once described what such an individual looks like. Are you ready for the Lord to do a marvelous work in your life...
When I was in Russia, my husband, Ken, purchased one of those wooden, hand-painted peasant dolls that twist open at the middle to reveal another doll inside...
If I had a “signature art piece,” it might just be New Life. I finished this butterfly study the year I turned 28, and many fell in love with it because of...
One of the most dramatic scenes in Scripture is when the Lord Jesus, after his resurrection, stretches out his hands to Thomas and challenges him to touch his wounds—and thus believe. Jesus could have left Thomas to stew in his doubts...
The Voyager II spacecraft sent back to Earth photos that were taken from four billion miles away. At that distance Earth appeared as a tiny dot on the photo, less than one seventy-secondth of an inch wide. And that’s...
Young Steven looked up from watching the Olympics on TV. “I’d rather have a silver medal, I think.” “Why?” “’Cause it looks better, shinier. Gold looks like...
When Jacob was born, he wasn’t breathing. His mother Katrina remembers her anguish as doctors pronounced her baby boy dead. But Katrina believed...
Tucked away in the small town of Union Grove, Wisconsin, an idyllic suburb of Racine, lies the campus of Shepherds College. Like other evangelical...