A young mother was frantically shuffling her two young children through the mall, trying to get her last few Christmas gifts. Her four-year-old daughter spotted an elaborate nativity set in the window of a home décor store and asked, “Mom, who are those two people and the baby in that barn?”   “That’s Mary, Joseph and Jesus at the first Christmas” she quickly explained. “Where

I often share a classic story that we tell in my family that captures the idea praying for others. My maternal grandparents used to travel from Oregon to Montana once year to visit. At that time in their lives they were not attending church. One day my Grandmother was obviously distraught. My eight-year-old brother noticed, and asked her what was wrong. She told him

In the 60-80s God used a man named Rev. Billy Cole to do large meetings where thousands were healed and baptized with the Holy Spirit. He obviously had a gift of faith. I was in a number of meetings that Rev. Cole ministered in. One of them was a conference in TX where 500 people received the Holy Spirit, including my own son.  He

We stood awkwardly and patiently. Two adults focused on the upturned face of a toddler. I had just handed the child a gift. It was not much, and I needed no response. But their parent had just dutifully asked them, “What do you say?” It was obvious that the child knew what to say. But they were at the age where they were having