Growing in Grace

The Board Meeting had come to an end. Bob started to stand up and jostled the table, spilling his coffee over his notes. “How embarrassing. I am getting so clumsy in my old age.” Everyone had a good laugh, and…

Donna’s fourth-grade classroom looked like many others I had seen in the past. Students sat in five rows of six desks. The teacher’s desk was in the front and faced the students. The bulletin board featured student work. In most…

Christian brethren have spoken of “the victorious life,” “the exchanged life,” “the replaced life,” and certainly, in many cases, in a deeply enriching and edifying way. Recorded in the book, “Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret,” is a letter that the great…

(An excerpt from the book Return from Tomorrow by George G. Ritchie with Elizabeth Sherrill, published by Fleming H. Revell, A division of Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, MI., pp. 113-116). When the war in Europe ended in May 1945,…

Bill was a big, awkward, homely guy. He dressed oddly with ill-fitting clothes. There were several fellows who thought it smart to make fun of him. One day one fellow noticed a small tear in his shirt and gave it…

I received a phone call from someone who had just spoken to my wife at the hospital. She has been through several surgeries in the last couple weeks, has encountered numerous difficulties along the way, but has been rejoicing through…

A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on each end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, and while the other pot was perfect and…

You are concerned about being humble because you know that is the person I draw near. You want to be clothed in humility but you are not sure you know how. You know it represents the opposite of works, that…

A parable is told of a farmer who owned an old mule. The mule fell into the farmer’s well. The farmer heard the mule “braying,” or whatever mules do when they fall into wells.After carefully assessing the situation, the farmer…

“I have really nothing at all to say today, but of course I’m not going to let that stop me from rattling on. There’s a word for this condition: “Logorrhea,” the excessive use of words. Logorrhea is generally used in conjunction with the…

(From an article entitled Moving from Solitude to Community by Henri Nouwen.) The little river said, “I can become a big river.” It worked hard, but there was a big rock. The river said, “I’m going to get around this…

[Note from Gary Amirault: I believe God gave Bill Britton some insight into God’s plans and purposes. But we all prophesy in part and see in part. In the article “Beyond Jordan,” Bill writes that speaking in tongues is the…

A man was exploring caves by the seashore. In one of the caves he found a canvas bag with a bunch of hardened clay balls. It was like someone had rolled clay balls and left them out in the sun…

Part One There is a great and profound mystery at work in the earth today; so great a mystery that it was first initiated in Eden’s long ago garden and secured by a covenant of death. This ponderous mystery is…