By Dr. Thomas Whiteman. “Mom…, tell Dad to pick up the other phone extension. I’ve got something I’ve got to tell you.” All over America, people are hear
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Vacations: A Gift of Grace
By Glen Van Andel. In his well-known play Our Town, Thornton Wilder describes how Emily, a woman who died in childbirth, is allowed to return to earth to spend one day with her family. She chooses to do so on her twelfth birthday, fully expecting it to be a day filled with rich memories and happy experiences.
But as the play unfolds, Emily becomes more and more frustrated with her family’s lack of interest in and sensitivity to the impor
Tattered Tom Versus Snow White: Two Gospels
By James Sauer. In the latter half of the 19th Century, the American Unitarian cleric and author, Horatio Alger, penned over 120 books for boys. The various series-Ragged Dick, Luck and Pluck, and Tattered Tom-were optimistic sagas of young bootblacks and newspaper boys whose virtues and gumption allowed them to rise from their humble ori
Trusting God: Just Whose Money Is This Anyway?
The author (unknown) of this article wishes to preserve the anonymity of those featured.
Money was tight in 1970. Should Mom get a job? Should we consider not tithing for a while? Dad called a family conference.
After reading Malachi 3, we decided not to give as much as before-we should give more. We had been robbing God by not giving tithes and offerings to Him.
Prayerfully, we determined to: continue giving 10 percent of our gross income as the tithe; begin giv
The Skeleton in My Closets
One of our great contempo
The Covenant Family
By Sharon Betters. President George Bush made prayer acceptable to our nation when he repeatedly asked Americans to pray for peace and our troops in Saudi Arabia. Capt. and Mrs. Brian L. Dosa, members of Newark Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Newark, DE, were already depending on their “covenant family” to cover them with prayer. On October 3, 1990, daughter Rachel’s first birthday, Capt. Dosa left Ft. Hood, TX, to join other allied troops in the Persian Gulf. Dosa commands a combat engineer company with the First Cavalry Division. His company is to remove any obstacles in the way of the troops-from mine sweeping to build