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Malachi 3:3 says: 'He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.' This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God. One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver and get back to the group at their…

Poem by Annie Johnson Flint

In “Serving the Right Master,” C. Les Wesley writes, “In that moment, it was clear I had the two things of real value with me: my wife and my unborn daughter. Hurricane Katrina would not destroy anything that could not later be rebuilt. Oh, I would miss our possessions and the pictures that would be…

Many people who live along the Jersey shore took time to attend Easter sunrise services demonstrating their faith is still strong despite the storms they have endured. One pastor who lead a service said tragedy brings people together in ways they normally would not have. Though two iconic crosses in…

Youcef Ndarkhani is an Iranian pastor jailed in 2009 for practicing Christianity. Iranian authorities have sentenced Youcef to death. Now an Iranian judge has sentenced the pastor’s attorney to nine years in prison. The charge against the lawyer, Mohammad Ali Dadkhah is acting against national security.…

As the nation watched and prayed, the 2012 fires devastated the Community of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Though he was not immediately impacted, the President of Focus on the Family, Jim Daly, who lives in the area, had an opportunity to reflect on what it mean if he and his family had to evacuate suddenly.…

Could it be true that Mike Tyson has finally realized his shortcomings? After his four-year-old daughter died in a treadmill accident, Tyson was emotionally touched by the people who reached out to help him. He realized “The first stage of my life was just a whole bunch of selfishness. I thought I was…

HARDSHIP/PERSEVERANCE I don't think it was the worst thing that could happen at a concert, but it wasn't good. On November 18, 1995, a string on Itzhak Perlman's violin snapped as he played at Avery Fisher Hall, at the Lincoln Center in New York. Really, the word snapped doesn't convey what happened…

In 1809, Simon Renee Braille and his wife Monique welcomed their fourth child into the world – a lively boy named Louis. They lived in a small stone house near Paris where Braille was the local harness maker, Leather working tools are dangerous, so the toddler had been instructed not to go into his father’…

Hardships For hardship does not spring from the soil, nor does trouble sprout from the ground. [7] Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward. (Job 5:6-7 NIV) I'd like to think that calamity will visit everyone but me, but I know it isn't true. Calamity will visit your home, and it will…

Back during the dark days of 1929, a group of ministers in the Northeast, all graduates of the Boston School of Theology, gathered to discuss how they should conduct their Thanksgiving Sunday services. Things were about as bad as they could get, with no sign of relief. The bread lines were depressingly…

Johann Gerhard Oncken, the "Father of German Baptists" (January 26, 1800-January 2, 1884), lived in a period of history and resided in a country that knew nothing of soul liberty and religious freedom. On one of the many occa­sions when he was arrested for preaching without state authorization, the burgo­master…