As we come to the second word of Jesus from the cross, we meditate on an extraordinary conversation that took place. It was a deathbed conversation like never before. Three…
The last words spoken by those who departed from this world are mostly remembered. A person's closing comments often reveal their values, priorities and innermost thoughts. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, by…
Transfiguration Sunday Do you know the expression “thin places”? It stems from the Celtic tradition, but is often used by many Christians to describe those monumental experiences in their life…
Presbyterian World Service & Development Sunday The life story of Helen Keller is quite often told. She was blind and deaf and in spite of that she inspired many lives…
“Who am I really?”, we all ask from time to time. The one moment you feel so happy with your “character” as a Christian and the next, you feel like…
Isabel Kuhn, who served as a missionary in China compiled biographies of men and women who gave up the normal life and in many cases extraordinary careers, to go to…
A young boy travelling by plane to visit his grandparents sat beside a man who happened to be a seminary professor. The boy was reading a Sunday school take-home paper…
Deep in the Arabian desert is a small fortress. It was at this place that Thomas Lawrence, also known as “Lawrence of Arabia”, used to seek shelter. Though it wasn’t…
I remember that on one of our trips we stopped in Amsterdam and went by train into Central Amsterdam. We went to an art store where everything was made from…
Hudson Taylor, founder of China Inland Mission, used to hang in his home a plaque with two Hebrew sayings on it: EBENEZER & JEHOVAH JIREH. The first means “Thus far…