For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. [...]

English teachers in our midst, please forgive my ungrammatical title. My prompt for today was to share my personal experience with the Gospel, or more precisely, the Good News. As I considered it, I felt [...]

Recently I found a story I wrote as an assignment for a correspondence course in “Writing for Children and Teenagers” that I was taking in 1992.  This particular story was supposed to be a [...]

In my Nebraska hometown farming community, couples often married young. When I was 15 my mother gave me a marriage hope chest just like this one, even though I had no boyfriend.   I [...]

I’ve forgotten the actual date, but I think it was Good Friday,1993, when we had a pageant that included a crucifixion. Our worship area at that time was rather patched together and we did [...]

What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! For he says to Moses,     "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,         and I will [...]

My friend Martha and I have a lot in common — we’re both believers,  we both have an adventurous streak, and we share a truly terrible sense of direction. We swap stories of amazing [...]

One of the oldest arguments against the existence of a good God is the philosophical conundrum, the problem of evil. It goes like this: If God is all-good, all-knowing, and all-powerful, how can evil [...]

by Kathleen Petersen Earlier this week you received words from some of my fellow Devotional Team members about the shade cast on Jesus’ reputation by dishonorable conduct of self-identified Christians. Such examples prompt doubt [...]