It’s something parents and grandparents fear could happen to their children and grandchildren after a severe injury: being paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. When this happened to one woman’s grandson, she learned that even through this difficult struggle, God had a plan.
Tag: Home and Family
Waiting for My Prodigal Son
Parents pray to adopt a son they can love, but he isn’t the son they thought he would be. As a mother struggles to love him, she finds new strength in God.
Diary of a Caregiver
In caring for her father and his illness, a woman experiences the daily burden of an adult parent — and God’s provisions to help her survive.
Prayer for the Pastor
You’ve probably heard. October is Pastor Appreciation Month. But you don’t have to limit your support to just one month of the year. Your pastor needs your prayers every day. As the Now What? feature story, “Broken to Serve,” movingly illustrates, while it is common to put our pastors on a pedestal as super-spiritual and…
Broken to Serve
When a pastor experiences an emotional breakdown, his wife suffers as well. Both discover that God can use them no matter where they are.
Broken to Serve – Resources
Resources Bible verse for the year: Every year since 1979 I’ve searched for a Bible verse for the year. In January I write the verse in the front of my Bible, memorize it, hang it in several places in my home and at work, and study the chapters around it. Often I stand amazed at…
Let the Children
My small, rural church in the Ozarks is teeming with children. In the life of this congregation they are both disturbance and delight. I am as likely to be correcting them for swinging riotously from the banisters as I am to praise them for behaving so nicely in service. All told, our fellowship would be…
Finding Freedom on Independence Day
The Father love of God reaches out to His hurting child. by P. J. Anna Fireworks explode all around me tonight. The Nebraska summer air is thickened as thousands of brilliant lights fill the night sky. Despite the excitement, the annual celebration of our country’s independence is a vivid, painful reminder of the worst…
The Class Ring
The result of our deepest desiressurrendered to a faithful God. by Veda Thomas Hall Persistent, paralyzing doubt gripped my mind as I agonized in prayer. Lord, is this opportunity to attend college Your desire or my own selfish desire? Could a college education possibly be God’s direction at this time in my life while…
And Baby Makes Two
Sowing in tears, reaping in joy. by Harriet E. Michael “Mom. . . I’m pregnant.” My twenty-year-old daughter, a junior at a Christian college, spoke in a calm voice, rocking my world and changing it forever. The phone had rung a little before midnight, waking me from a sound sleep. My daughter continued, “I’ve…