
Van Raalte’s Stump Sermon
I had walked past it numerous times and never paid it much attention. But this time I stopped because something peculiar had caught my eye.
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I had walked past it numerous times and never paid it much attention. But this time I stopped because something peculiar had caught my eye.

Compassion Fatigue In his landmark book The Prophets, Abraham Joshua Heschel describes the character of God: God loves the people of the world fiercely and

The biblical portrayal of darkness, explored in Part One of this essay, is multivalent. While some passages portray darkness as a negative force trying to

Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part series on applying a biblical understanding of darkness to one’s life. Part Two will run next

At the beginning of every Christmas season, I descend the stairs to the basement and search the backroom for a large brown box marked “Christmas.”

Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18:3 In words that still

Hilghe Stede I didn’t have the heart to part with it: a silver-plated cream and sugar set with matching tray, now tarnished by age. Judy

Last spring I was hiking along a section of the Saline River that shambles through the city of Milan, Michigan, and I came to a

Grubs Every year it seems, a southwest wind blows the seed of a new plant into my yard, a small plot, about 1,500 square feet,