By David Faust It’s a common saying. You experience a minor mishap and shrug your shoulders. You dent your car’s bumper. Your cell phone bites the dust. You waste money on an impulse purchase that turns out to be nonreturnable. “Oh well,” you say to yourself, “it’s not the end of the world.” You may […]
Songs in the Trees
By David Faust Far back in a field on the farm where I grew up, there’s a tree our family for decades has called the Saxophone Tree. It’s rooted in the ground atop a creek bank. At first the oak’s two-and-a-half-foot thick trunk extends down about eight feet toward the creek. Then, as if it […]
In The World—May 22, 2016
By Melissa Wuske Faith-Changing Movie Role Actress Jennifer Garner recently played Christy Beam in the real-life story of the Beam family, Miracles from Heaven. The movie shows how the family coped with daughter Anna’s pseudo-obstruction motility disorder, which requires feeding tubes for sustenance, and how Anna was miraculously cured after a near-death accident. Portraying this […]
Joyous Faith—The Uniform Lesson for May 29, 2016
By Dr. Mark Scott “The gospel is for sellouts.” That is how our oldest son, Casey, began his senior sermon in Bible College chapel. His text was the story of Zacchaeus. He turned the message in two directions: first Zacchaeus was a sellout to Rome, and second Zacchaeus was a sellout to Jesus. This is […]
Eradicating Spiritual Poverty
By Laura McKillip Wood Nathan Davenport began his ministry working at a Christian college, where he coordinated international mission trips, worked with students’ spiritual formation, and organized service learning for the student body. Despite his love for the students and for his work, he began to feel the Holy Spirit directing his attention to the […]
