Proof The Bible Is True

How many times have we heard ourselves say it: What a coincidence! And sometimes that’s all it is, an outcome against which the odds were stacked. Then there are things not even coincidence can explain. Case in point–Bill and Gloria Jamieson.   After a painful divorce, Gloria Jean Slinkard felt so strongly about wanting to remain single for the rest of her life that she vowed to never even consider getting married again. Then she met Bill Jamieson.   Four days later, on Valentine’s Day, Bill proposed and Gloria said yes. Immediately. Why? Because what occurred in that brief interlude [More]

I have my own the story to share. It’s a tale my mom recounts, without fail, every Christmas. In fact, this year she’s already told the story three or four times!   It was a couple of days before Christmas in 1984 and I was one and a half years old. My sisters had just gone to bed–visions of sugarplums no doubt dancing in their heads–but I was still awake and sitting in my mom’s lap. My dad plopped down next to the Christmas tree, rearranging all the pretty presents before Santa’s big arrival.   “And what do you want [More]

There’s a reason I don’t play the lottery or enter contests. I know I’ll never win. Even the one time I did–I collected ten dollars in a magazine sweepstakes–it didn’t make up for the hundred dollars in magazine gift subscriptions I’d bought over the years. So when the cashier at the grocery store handed me a scratch-off prize card around Thanksgiving, I didn’t want to take it.   “It’s free with your grocery purchase,” the cashier said. Okay, if I don’t need to gamble any money away…  Still, I wasn’t sure there wasn’t some catch. After fishing for a quarter from my [More]

Huckleberry Hound’s lazy drawl drifted into my kitchen that Saturday morning in the fall of 1959. His antics would keep my two young children occupied while I cooked some oatmeal for breakfast. The television was a poor babysitter, but what other option did I have?   My husband had left us. We got no support from him, financial or otherwise. We’d lost everything we owned in a fire and had to start over from scratch. There wasn’t much assistance for single mothers back then, so the free entertainment the television offered was a big help.   I opened the cupboard [More]

I straightened my sequined headpiece and wings, and stepped onto the stage at Trump Marina in Atlantic City. I was “Angel,” a lead soprano in Cirque Dreams Holidaze, a national holiday production. It was a huge role, one I was grateful for.   But I couldn’t help but worry. Would this finally be my big break? Or just another dead end?   Performing had always come naturally to me. As a toddler I danced and sang around the house, putting on variety shows for my parents, older sister and younger brother. When I was five my parents took us all to [More]

One-hundred-ninety-three boxes of cereal filled up the storage room of the Canby Center, the Christian community outreach organization and food pantry where my husband serves as director and I volunteer. Cheerios, Corn Flakes, Wheaties, Raisin Bran, Life, Honey Bunches of Oats, every cereal you could think of.   They’d arrived Monday morning by truck, brought to us by the cheerful manager of the Burgerville franchise nearby. “Our cereal box drive was a great success,” he declared. He’d offered a free milkshake to anyone who participated.   My husband thanked him for the generous donation, but as nice as it was, I worried it [More]

08/21/23 Newsmen are said to have tough hides, cold hearts, “printer’s ink in their veins.” We see so much of tragedy, disaster, the mud and blood that make news. Understandably, we can become insensitive, cynical, hard. That’s why I’m grateful for what happened to me just about a year ago. It took place up a little mountain road in Cave Creek, Arizona. I think today that all the experiences in my life had been building up to this one. Read More: Guideposts Classics: Paul Harvey on Submitting to God – Guideposts

“Get in the car!” the hooded figure yelled. He jammed the barrel of his gun into Elizabeth Metzler’s side.   The 30-year-old teacher from Colorado Springs had stopped by Target that evening to pick up toothpaste and shampoo. She was getting into her car when two hooded men in ski masks emerged from the shadows. She caught a glimpse of the gun in the silver moonlight. It looked cold and terrifying.   Read More: A Token of Her Commitment to God – Guideposts

https://renner.org How do you get from where you are to where God wants you to be? Sometimes before you can get into the right place, you have to get “unstuck” from where you are. When you finally move to the place God has assigned for you, you will find supernatural blessings are awaiting you. To experience God’s best, you have to know how to identify it and then be willing to get into alignment with it.

https://renner.org This five-part series will put you on the path to discover the will of God for your life. It’s really not so hard to find once you get into the place where it can be revealed to you. But what is that special place that aligns your mind and spirit so that you can clearly hear the reason God brought you into the world? In this series you will learn the steps you need to take to get into a place where you can perceive God’s will and actually see it and know how to implement it.

Run the Race tells the story of two desperate brothers willing to sacrifice today for a better tomorrow. Reeling from his mother’s death and his father’s abandonment, Zach (Tanner Stine) finds glory on the football field, working to earn a college scholarship and the brothers’ ticket out of town. But when a devastating injury puts Zach—and his dreams—on the sidelines, his brother David (Evan Hofer) laces up his track cleats to salvage their future and point Zach toward hope.

“The road is impassable,” the fire chief warned us. “You’ll never make it.” We’d pulled up next to his firefighting team in a snow of ashes, staring at Highway 39, the only route into the San Gabriel Canyon of Angeles National Forest, 30 miles northeast of L.A. Thick smoke and bright orange flames roared from the trees beyond. My partner, John, and I, deputies for the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, exchanged glances. “We’ve got no choice,” I muttered. I wheeled our SUV around the roadblock, into the jaws of the fiery beast. The firefighters had their job to do. We [More]

A strip of glossy paper, torn from yet another magazine, dangled from our little black cocker spaniel’s clenched teeth. I knelt down to tug the soggy, rectangular scrap from his mouth. “Come on, boy.” He relaxed his jaw and looked up with innocent eyes. I glared at him, frustrated. Now? Why are you doing this now? Nothing, it seemed, could stop Leaf’s new bad habit. And he’d always been such a good dog! I held the slimy slip he’d dropped into my hand up to the light, reading the disjointed words and numbers printed on it as if they held some [More]

The engine revved, but our jeep’s wheels spun futilely in the sand. Stuck! It was another hot night in the fall of 1945, on the Pacific island of Saipan, and my corporal had taken me out on patrol duty. Sometimes servicemembers would sneak a vehicle off base to cruise around the island, then ditch the vehicle when they were though. It was our job to bring those vehicles back. We’d noticed a set of tire tracks trailing off towards the beach and pulled off the main road to investigate. Now, the jeep refused to budge from its place, lodged in the sand. [More]

Brr. I hugged the warm Crockpot I was carrying as I walked up to the building site. We’re hardy folk here in Wisconsin, but that fall day was beyond brisk. The women in my church group were bringing lunch to some Habitat for Humanity volunteers building a house in a working-class neighborhood. We’d made brownies, sandwiches and, most important, a huge batch of chili. Nearing the site, I wondered if chili would be enough to warm the bellies of the hungry crew. Except…there was no activity. No hammering. No saws buzzing. No drills whirring. No one working inside or out. Only [More]

Are we going to have tons of fun today?” I asked my four-year-old granddaughter as we drove to my house. “Yeah!” she shouted from the backseat. She and I always had fun. She was three months old when my son and daughter-in-law adopted her. In the four years since, we’d spent a lot of time together. Watering the garden, reading books, feeding her daddy’s horse—anything was fun as long as we were together. “How about some music?” I asked. I popped in a Christmas CD. It was almost December, after all. “Oh come, all ye faithful…” came from the car [More]

This dramatic movie follows the story of a woman doctor who is conducting interviews with people having life after death experiences. A skeptical medical doctor questions all of this and comes up with an idea to find out the truth for himself.

Discover the powerful coming-of-age story of a student environmentalist who shames his father’s legacy and abandons everyone who loves him, including his girlfriend, Michelle. On the run from his family, the authorities, and—most of all—God, Jeff finally confronts the deep hole in his life that only one thing can fill.

https://renner.org n this five-part series Partnering With Jesus and Working With God, Rick Renner opens the Scriptures to show us practical ways and biblical examples of how to partner with Jesus and work with God to advance the Gospel and see supernatural results in your life.

https://renner.org In this series, Rick Renner teaches you about the ten different kinds of fuel you need to stay spiritually ablaze for years to come. As you learn about these fuels, you will discover how to throw them into the fire in your heart so you can keep burning spiritually. With the help of this powerful series, you can keep your inner man burning like a spiritual inferno!

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Business travel booked. Bills paid. House cleaned. A busy morning, but I’d managed to complete my most pressing tasks. I breathed a sigh of relief. The summer is when the business I run with my husband requires the most attention, and church and family obligations fill my days. Sometimes I think my busy brain could use a personal assistant, to make sure everything’s covered. Then I looked at the clock. 1:31 PM. For some reason, the time made me uneasy. Is there something I forgot to do? All I could think of was my appointment to meet with the party planner, [More]

Four days before the semester started, my son, Keith, decided he was going back to college. My husband, John, and I were thrilled. Keith had taken six months off after his sophomore year and we worried he’d never go back. His last year at Utah State had been less than stellar, but this time would be different. All he needs is a good roommate, I thought. Someone to watch out for him when our family can’t. On such short notice, though, the university couldn’t guarantee him a dorm room, let alone a roommate. We packed the car—extra sheets, towels and winter clothes—and John [More]

Two stories from the news this week are great examples of what we at Mysterious Ways call “Encounters & Connections,” the unexpected ways in which the paths of two people cross to deliver incredible results. In Kent, Washington, a 911 operator named Candace picked up a call from a panicked woman reporting a theft. What was stolen? A wedding dress. Read More

Admittedly, the house had been quiet since my husband died, but I didn’t want a dog. I had enough responsibilities as an elementary school principal. Besides, no dog could ever replace Kash, my childhood best friend. I only went with my friend Dee to the animal shelter for pet adoption day because when she gets an idea she’s like, well, a dog with a bone. I figured she’d drop it once she saw I had no interest. But one dog took an interest in me. He came right up and looked at me plaintively, imploringly. Some sort of cattle-dog mix, [More]

A lost elderly woman with Alzheimer’s is guided by God’s love. Watch VIdeo

When a vacation turns into a moment of terror, a prayer is answered in an amazing way. Watch Video