Encouragement

Is God Good When Life Hurts? quiet word for hard days

Is God Good When Life Hurts? A Quiet Word for the Hard Days

It’s a fair question. Anyone who has watched a parent decline, sat in a...
Fanny Crosby, blind 19th-century hymn writer who composed over 8,000 hymns including Blessed Assurance

Fanny Crosby: The Blind Woman Who Wrote 8,000 Hymns

When Fanny Crosby was six weeks old, a traveling doctor treated her infected eyes...
Does God Care About Me? Lift Up Your Day devotional

Does God Care About Me? A Direct Answer for the Days You’re Not Sure

Yes. God cares about you. Not in a vague, polite, religious sense. He cares...
Peaceful clouds and open sky, a picture of the freedom forgiveness brings

What Does the Bible Say About Forgiveness? (Ephesians 4:32)

A man kept a letter in his desk drawer for twelve years. Every time...
Lottie Moon, Southern Baptist missionary to China who died Christmas Eve 1912

Lottie Moon’s Last Christmas: The Seed That Fed Millions

They had to carry her onto the ship. She weighed fifty pounds. Charlotte "Lottie"...
John Newton, Anglican minister and former slave trader who wrote Amazing Grace

John Newton: The Slave Trader Who Helped End Slavery

The Atlantic had turned black. Wind tore through the rigging. Waves crashed clean over...
George Müller, founder of the Bristol orphan houses, the Prussian-born minister whose ten thousand orphans were fed on prayer alone

George Müller: The Life That Proved God Answers Prayer

George Müller began as a teenage thief who stole from his own father. He...
Evan Roberts, the 26-year-old Welsh miner whose prayer "Lord, bend me" sparked the 1904 Welsh Revival

When Heaven Visited Wales: The 1904 Awakening

The coal dust never quite washed off his hands. By day, Evan Roberts swung...
What does the Bible say about anxiety? A pastor’s answer rooted in Philippians 4 and Matthew 6

What Does the Bible Really Say About Anxiety?

She set the phone down at 3:14 a.m. The blue light still hovered on...
A word for the weary pastor — 1 Kings 19, Elijah under the juniper tree

The Sunday After: Encouragement for the Weary Pastor (1 Kings 19)

The candle had burned to a stub in the parsonage at Newington. Charles Haddon...