Uplook

Here's a helpful lesson learned in a Paris subway station that'll help you keep your Christian life on the right track.

God specializes in giving power to the faint. Helen Keller lost both her hearing and sight through an illness. Yet she wrote 14 books and traveled the world advocating for the hearing and vision impaired. She famously said, "I wept because I had no shoes until I met a...

Getting dressed in the dark isn't a good idea if you care about your fashion. It's also not a good idea if you care about your walk with the Lord.

It was a downhill ride for the little boy on a cold winter's day, but nothing like the downward course the taxi driver was taking. Good thing God gave him a warning--right out of his own mouth!

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day. Be sure to tell your loved ones how much you care for them. But what about our love for the lost? God reminded Jonah how easy it is to care more for things that have no eternal value (like gourds and...soap operas?) while souls all around...

My father tells a story from the war years and a thrilling illustration of the believer's arrival in Heaven.

The dear Irish woman had heard one message all her life. But it hadn't brought her peace. Then she heard a very different message, a message of simplicity and certainty and hope. But was it God's message? She asked Him to prove if it was. So God spoke to her—twice.

"Rightly dividing" the Word comes from two ideas: ortho meaning "right or proper"; tomounta means "to cut." Of course this tells us to make the careful distinctions God makes. What it DOESN'T mean is to cut out some of the words!

Martin Luther came to the breakfast table one morning but was served up some humble pie, compliments of his wise wife. Here's a good reminder that God's people are to be emissaries of His hope in this hopeless world.