
When God Shows Up Unexpectedly
It was as if God whispered, “Your life is just like that. If you’ll walk in My footsteps, I’ll guide you—and as long as you keep following in My footsteps, your journey will be much easier.”
In 1978, author Loren Eiseley published an essay called “The Star Thrower.” It recounts a beach walk by a narrator...
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It was as if God whispered, “Your life is just like that. If you’ll walk in My footsteps, I’ll guide you—and as long as you keep following in My footsteps, your journey will be much easier.”

God uses everything around us, even something as simple as the change in our wallets, to connect us with one another. To remind us of the power of love.

Get swept away in Ohio’s Amish country as newly arrived “Englischer” Cheryl Cooper and her Amish friend Naomi Miller work together to solve intriguing mysteries.

Isn’t it a precious thing that the Lord, our Father in heaven, recognizes our need to be noticed and meets us with unending, unchanging, unblemished love?

Is it just a “small world,” or is someone working overtime to put broken families back together? What do you think? Have you found someone through extraordinary circumstances—mysterious ways?

Owl City singer Adam Young shares what it was like collaborating with Jake Owen and why he decided to focus on faith on his latest album “Mobile Orchestra.”

Wisdom from the history-making ballerina.

Angels on Earth magazine paves the way for an aspiring writer.

Give us this day our daily bread? I find myself praying it, thinking of those for whom their daily bread is not to be taken for granted. It’s not just me and mind, it’s ours.

When we asked you, our readers, to tell us what defines a miracle, the answers varied, but all were personal.

Unlike the orphan in Charles Dickens’s novel Oliver Twist, when we ask God for more of something good and loving, we will receive it!

I’m reminded that we leave traces of Jesus behind in our everyday lives—whether in a bad way or in a good way—like a teenaged girl with Bible verses taped on her mirror and her heart for missions captured in the photos on her wall.
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