In the powerful article ldquo Does My Son Know You rdquo sportswriter Jonathan Tjarks wrote of his battle with terminal cancer and his desire for others to care well for his wife and young son The thirty-four-year-old wrote the piece just six months prior to his death Tjarks a believer in Jesus whose father had died when he was a young adult shared Scriptures that speak of care for widows and orphans Exodus Isaiah James And in words directed to his friends he wrote ldquo When I see you in heaven there rsquo s only one thing I rsquo m [... more]

Your bees are swarming rdquo My wife stuck her head inside the door and gave me news no beekeeper wants to hear I ran outside to see thousands of bees flying up from the hive to the top of a tall pine never to return I was a little behind in reading the clues that the hive was about to swarm more than a week of storms had hampered my inspections The morning the storms ended the bees left The colony was new and healthy and the bees were actually dividing the colony to start a new one ldquo Don [... more]

In Langston Hughes an aspiring writer working as a busboy at a hotel in Washington D C discovered that a poet he admired Vachel Lindsey was staying as a guest at the hotel Hughes shyly slipped Lindsey some of his own poetry which Lindsey later praised enthusiastically at a public reading Lindsey rsquo s encouragement resulted in Hughes receiving a university scholarship furthering him on his way to his own successful writing career nbsp A little encouragement can go a long way especially when God is in it Scripture tells of an incident when David was on the run from [... more]

In the gospel Jesus Christ welcomes the undeserving into His house to dine at His table Today R C Sproul reveals how this gracious invitation is echoed in King David's bringing the grandson of Saul into his court Get the 'Dust to Glory' Special Edition DVD Series with R C Sproul for Your Gift of Any Amount https gift renewingyourmind org dust-to-glory Don't forget to make RenewingYourMind org your home for daily in-depth Bible study and Christian resources [... more]