Many years ago, a godly man travelled to Burma to help distribute Bibles with the Gideon society. Because of an oppressive government, all of the Gideon Bibles had been removed from the hotel rooms. One night, the man attended a meeting of the local Gideons to talk about how they could get the Bibles back […]

A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. “What food might this contain?” the mouse wondered. He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap. Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning: “There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a […]

The book ‘When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present’ by Sue Augustine is full of encouraging stories. This is one of them: An experiment was done with two groups of people who had to hold their hands in a bucket of ice water for three minutes. The first group were told about the three minute […]

How silly it would be if we carried an umbrella with us, but didn’t use it for our protection when it rained? In the same way, God says that He spreads His protection over us, but how often do we disbelieve that, instead of taking refuge in Him from the storms of life. I still […]

Did you realize how wonderfully we are made? Even science and medicine can see the wonders of the human body. But there is even more to it than how amazing our bodies are. Each of us has been uniquely designed and created by God with the same care and precision He took to create the […]

A young woman named Deborah was in her first year of college when she found herself pregnant and alone. After she had her baby and tried to continue her classes, one of her professor’s told her that it was hard enough to pass his class as a regular student with no other responsibilities and would […]

Think about what is mentioned in the following two hymns: 1. I’m only human, I’m just a woman Help me believe in what I could be and all that I am Show me the stairway I have to climb Lord, for my sake teach me to take one day at a time One day at […]

Even though God has said He will never let us be shaken, it’s so hard to cast our cares on the Lord when we feel so weak and small and the problems attacking us are so big. I was encouraged this week when I read a story in the Old Testament, in 2nd Chronicles, chapter […]