When Sorrows Like Sea Billows Roll

When Sorrows Like Sea Billows Roll

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here In 1870, life for Horatio Spafford and his family seemed to be splendid.Spafford was a senior partner in a large and thriving Chicago law firm. He poured his assets into Chicago real estate. He enjoyed a...
The Fourth Person

The Fourth Person

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereWhen things go wrong and life falls apart, it’s not unusual for people to want to fire God.It would be like axing an incompetent personal assistant. Is this any way to run a universe?Or we want to go to...
Help in the Storm

Help in the Storm

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Stuart Briscoe and his wife Jill, who are natives of England, came to America some years ago to help launch a new congregation in the Midwest. They had been in the States only a short while when they made...
Beauty Salon

Beauty Salon

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here If God really exists, why is the world such a mess? It’s easy to document that on any given day people all over the planet awaken to wars, famines, and corruption.   Why doesn’t God, with one sweep of his...
Make a Stand

Make a Stand

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here In 1997, two days before her first birthday, Alexandra “Alex” Scott was diagnosed with a childhood cancer called neuroblastoma. At first Alex made good progress in overcoming her disease. By age two she...