By Melissa Wuske Officer Helps a Grieving Man When Mark Ross heard his sister had been killed in a car accident, he asked a friend to give him a ride from his home in Ohio to Detroit to be with his family. During the drive, the friend was pulled over for speeding, then arrested for […]
Praise God for Creation—The Uniform Lesson for January 1, 2017
By Mark Scott Mother Nature is not God’s wife, but creation is God’s gift. It is therefore obvious that God’s people praise him for that gift. And it is right to start that praise on the first day of a new year. Creation arose from the character and power of God and finds its foundation […]
A World of Opportunity
Laura McKillip Wood Every November when she was a child, Rebecca Monnier and her family helped serve Thanksgiving dinner at a homeless shelter in her hometown near Omaha, Nebraska. “While this was really small, it opened my eyes to the world outside of the one I was used to, and I really believe that sparked […]
Unexpected Lessons in My Father’s World—Life Application for January 1, 2017
David Faust Do you know that groundhogs can climb trees? I didn’t realize this was possible, but recently I saw a groundhog sitting on a limb about 15 feet off the ground in the plum tree behind our house. My wife, Candy, took a picture of it to prove we weren’t seeing things. For further […]
In The World—December 25, 2016
By Melissa Wuske Americans Believe in Miraculous Healing About two-thirds (66 percent) of American adults believe that a person can be supernaturally healed by God, according to a Barna research study. Evangelical Christians are the most likely to believe in this kind of healing, with 87 percent strongly agreeing. “The experience of actual physical healing […]