“Your biopsy results are in.” The doctor continued, “It’s an aggressive form of cancer, but it was only present in two of the twelve biopsies. It appears we caught it early enough, but I’m ordering a PET scan to make certain it hasn’t metastasized.” Those are words...

“God bless you, Hugh.” I was ending one pastoral call when the telephone immediately began ringing again. I had not even finished summarizing my notes from the conversation with Hugh, but an unmistakable impression settled on my heart: Take this call. I answered,...

It had been more than a decade since our niece Andrea and her two sons made the trip north from Texas to visit us. Usually, we are the ones traveling south for Christmas, so having them with us for the weekend felt like a special gift from the Lord. Andrea’s boys are...