“If you love me, then you will” . How many times do people say this to one another? This phrase can be used to manipulate, and even to get the person you’re directing it towards to do something that is against their conscience. But even Jesus asked this question of ...

After 400 years of slavery, Israel finally tasted the beginning of freedom from the evil of their Egyptian captors. Moses was leading them out of Egypt, but there was a wilderness to face before true freedom would be theirs. One of the wilderness experiences the Israelites faced was the Red ...

As a girl, my only view of Mary was that of the tall white statue presiding in the beautiful cathedral in my city. Many prayed to her, but for a young girl, she seemed quite imposing. Years later, I learned for the first time that Mary was a Jewish teenager, ...

“I will sing to the Lord as long as I live. I will praise God to my last breath.” Psalm 104:3 (The Living Bible) It was November 21, 1873, when the ocean liner S.S. Ville de Havre was rammed by a British vessel, sinking in only minutes into Atlantic waters ...

Eliza Spurgeon became a mother at age nineteen. Her first born was a strong-willed boy named Charles. He would be followed by 16 more children, 9 of them would die in infancy. For Eliza, raising godly children meant leading them to salvation at the earliest of ages, before they could ...