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the cost of citizenship

by roxanne robbins on June 13th, 2012 | 2 responses
My adopted son Wasswa became a naturalized American citizen when we flew in from Uganda on 3rd June, 2011 and passed through immigration. Though we were in America only for the summer, and would return to Uganda a few weeks later, by law Wasswa’s citizenship is his for life. His rights as a... read more »

lowered to be raised

by regina franklin on May 28th, 2012 | 5 responses
This is going to be good.” While enjoying some coffee and catching up on life’s changes, I shared with my friend about a difficult choice I had made regarding my ministry responsibilities. Though I had toiled many months in prayer, I was honest in telling her that I knew it was a move of... read more »

spirit-wind

by winn collier on April 20th, 2012 | 10 responses
Soon after a tornado disaster in the US, I saw aerial photographs of its path. Entire neighborhoods were flattened. From the high angle of the photographer’s shot, all of the wood and debris looked like scattered, splintered toothpicks, tossed violently over a wide swath of city blocks.... read more »

good call

by tom felten on December 26th, 2011 | 5 responses
Early in 2011, a US baseball coach made the best call of his career. Tom Walter, the coach of the Wake Forest University baseball team, chose to give up one of his kidneys so that one of his players could live. A freshman player, Kevin Jordan, had been stricken with a disease that attacked his... read more »

absorbing the fall

by marvin williams on December 11th, 2011 | 3 responses
Shirley Dygert wanted to celebrate her 54th birthday with flair. So she signed up to skydive from nearly 21⁄2 miles above the terra firma. In tandem with Dave Hartsock, her instructor, they leaped from the plane. They pulled the ripcord, but the parachute became tangled and only partially opened.... read more »

silent love

by mike wittmer on October 24th, 2011 | 5 responses
My wealthy neighbor decided he no longer wanted to pay his mortgage, so he left our neighborhood for a larger home. His former house has gone into foreclosure, which lowers the value of my home, for foreclosed homes normally sell far below what the market is dictating. He also stopped paying his... read more »

radical generosity

by tim gustafson on October 16th, 2011 | 10 responses
You’ve likely heard the phrase: “He’d give you the shirt off his back.” It describes the kind of generosity displayed by someone who thinks of the needs of others ahead of his own. A pastor friend of mine infused life into that phrase when he gave this startling challenge to his... read more »

that’s not fair!

by Jeff Olson on October 1st, 2011 | 5 responses
Go ahead. Say these words out loud: “That’s not fair!” Whether as a sibling, a spouse, an employee, or a sports fan, we’ve all said those words. At some point, we’ve all compared ourselves to someone else or their situation and concluded that we’ve gotten a raw deal. The cry of... read more »

there you are!

by tim gustafson on September 26th, 2011 | 5 responses
“There are two kinds of people,” said advice columnist Abigail Van Buren. “Those who walk into a room and say, ‘There you are!’ and those who say, ‘Here I am!’” The one Person who could have rightly declared, “Here I am,” seemed oddly reluctant to promote Himself. Jesus was... read more »

a part or apart

by pohfangchia on September 8th, 2011 | 9 responses
In The Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church, Reggie McNeal writes, “A growing number of people are leaving the institutional church for a new reason. They are not leaving because they have lost faith. They are leaving the church to preserve their faith. They contend that the church... read more »
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