Seeing the Light

A woman named Rose Crawford had been blind for 50 years. “I just can’t believe it,” she gasped as the doctor lifted the bandages from her eyes after her recovery from delicate surgery in an Ontario hospital. She wept for joy when for the first time in her life a dazzling and beautiful world of […]

A Clear View of Him Who Is Invisible

When we live with full eyes and empty hearts, assurance runs low and conviction wears thin. It’s hard to hope from an empty heart. When we simply go with the flow of the world — walking and talking and acting and feeling by sight — there will always be plenty to keep our eyes full, […]

“Tracks in the Sand”

Acts 14 records the briefest of statements from a sermon Paul preached to citizens in Lystra. He and Barnabas had at first been regarded as gods by those listeners after Paul had healed a lame man. When the two preachers suddenly perceived that the townsfolk were about to offer sacrifice to them by killing an […]

Encourage Children to Be Spiritually Minded

“How can we encourage our youth to be spiritually-minded in this age of materialism and convenience?” First, don’t spoil them. Giving them everything they want, or nearly everything, or pushing things on them they haven’t even asked for will create a materialistic mindset. Waiting on them hand and foot will make tyrants out of them. […]