The Perfect Result

The Perfect Result

I sat alone on the sidewalk outside the Port-au-Prince airport. My first trip abroad and I was stranded. I didn’t speak the language. Cell phones didn’t exist. No one answered the telephone number I had. Four hours earlier when my ride hadn’t appeared, a friendly...
Rebuke the Winds

Rebuke the Winds

Fear is part of the human experience. It motivates us to act in ways that in hindsight we wish we hadn’t. It’s even worse if it reveals something important is lacking. The word “fear” appears almost 400 times in the Bible, describing a range of human situations. In...
Man of Prayer

Man of Prayer

George Muller (1805–1898) cared for over 10,000 orphans during his lifetime. He was a father to the fatherless because he saw his Heavenly Father answer prayer. The plight of the orphan was a recurring theme for Charles Dickens (think Oliver Twist). He was so...
Fruitful Abiding

Fruitful Abiding

“I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.”- Jesus Ahead of me in line at the post office was a young mother with a toddler. An older woman couldn’t help but chatting with the mom...