3:49 a.m.—the tone alert of an incoming text awoke Sharon*. It was a message no mother wants to receive. Her 15-year-old son Colton* had sent a video of himself, sitting forlorn on his bed. Animated writing in black font filled in atop his image, “WAS I a bad son?”...

My wife Shelley says, “Intercessory prayer is the highest calling there is to ministry, because it is the ministry of our risen and exalted Savior who sits at the right hand of God, and is ‘able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He...

It was late in the evening. Sitting in my recliner, I was reading when the phone rang. Glancing at the caller ID, I was surprised to see it was Herb. We had only spoken twice before, and both conversations had transpired from my office. Herb isn’t easy to reach by...