by Nathan McConnell | Articles
Once at a church in New England, I asked a group of deaf adults: “Heart: what mean?” I asked this question after a Sunday school lesson in which the word heart was signed often. For them to have understood the lesson, understanding the spiritual dynamic of the...
by Wil Rice IV | Articles
A frigid wind scoured Chicago, but the toddler was burning with a fever. Her parents hovered by her crib and prayed for the storm to blow over. The storm threatening them was not some force outside their damp apartment; it was the spinal meningitis within the body of...
by Wil Rice IV | Articles
When God leads in a new year or in a new way, you can either trust Him or fear the future. Many would prefer a tyranny they know to the freedom of a future they do not know. Remember the Israelites who followed God, fled Egypt, then found themselves trapped...
by Wil Rice IV | Articles
For any earnest parent, there is a tension between the desire to bring a child to Jesus and the fear that a child is too young to decide. I well remember how I felt when each of my children was at the age when I wasn’t certain how much he understood, but I...