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Snow on Snow

January 2016

Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail… From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens when the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen? (Job 38:22, 29-30) We moved from Chicago to Colorado in November of 1992, towing a small U-Haul trailer behind our Toyota packed with essentials (warm clothes, a mattress, two place ...

Paris and Beyond

November 2015

On the day when bullets flew and bombs detonated in Paris, plunging the City of Light into darkness, I was visiting the most populous Muslim nation in the world. First in Indonesia, and then in Malaysia and Hong Kong while on a publisher-sponsored speaking tour, I heard breaking news in snatches only if the hotel carried CNN or BBC in English. I felt oddly distant from the mood that must have descended like a shroud of fear over the U.S. ...

Boomerang Prayers

October 2015

Because I wrote a book with the title Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? I receive letters and emails from readers who give wrenching accounts of unanswered prayers. A man quit his job at a printing plant when it began printing pornography and, despite his urgent prayers, never landed another job. A couple desperately wanted a child and found themselves infertile. Another woman got her wish for a child, only to have her daughter die of a rare disease before ...

Winston

September 2015

If you had met Winston on the street, you would presume him to be a vagrant. Day after day he wore the same ratty blue jeans and plaid flannel shirt. Even at the height of summer he wore a stained jacket and often a knit cap covering his nearly bald head. He had more teeth missing than present. He walked with short, shuffling steps, assisted by a cane—until he went blind, when he hardly walked at all. Instead he sat ...

Jesus and Miracles

August 2015

Having written books with titles like Where Is God When It Hurts and Disappointment with God, I hear from a lot of people who recount their unanswered prayers for physical healing. When I wrote Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? I interviewed several dozen physicians and always asked, “Have you ever seen a bona fide supernatural healing of one of your patients? Most would think for a moment and come up with one, or maybe two, but none said, “Sure, all ...

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Snow on Snow

Paris and Beyond

Boomerang Prayers

Winston

Jesus and Miracles