LOST AND YOU DON'T KNOW IT “I don’t know what’s wrong with me,” the well-dressed woman confessed to us. “I do everything right: I pray, go to church every Sabbath, pay my tithe, study my Bible daily, but it’s all empty. I’ve never felt close to God.” My mind wrestled with her words, [...]
JUST SAY YES “My father would kill me if he knew I was converting to Christianity,” a brave Muslim recently shared his growing convictions. Wide eyed I marveled at his beaming young face. “I loved yours and René’s sermon this Sabbath. I have decided to convert to Christianity and become a Seventh-day Adventist!” [...]
PRESCRIPTION FOR LOVE “We were about to celebrate the 25th anniversary of our marriage, but for about 10 years, I was disconnected from my husband,” Doreen Cliffe discloses. “I felt trapped in a world I didn’t want to be in with somebody who didn’t care about me. We had been doing health and [...]
HOW TO STRENGTHEN YOUR WILLPOWER The chocolate cake or the apple? Staying in bed or going to the gym? Watching another YouTube video or focusing on your work? Spending or saving? Every day, all day, choices challenge your willpower: the ability to exercise self-control when you need it. The problem is that sometimes [...]
IS THERE ROOM IN YOUR HEART FOR HIM? Is it possible that the safest place to hide from God is in church? “In costly dwellings and splendid churches, the rich shut themselves away from the poor” (The Desire of Ages, pg. 639). Yet, Immanuel, God with us, always had His heart open to [...]
RESCUED“My father described it to me this way,” Mathew Feeley explains, “’The box was full, and one day I came back, and the box was empty. There was nothing left.’ Our family lost everything, and we ended up in Toronto metro housing, where I was born, the youngest of six in Kingston-Galloway, Scarborough, Ontario. [...]
ONE THING I DESIRE “If you could ask God for one thing, what would it be?” My mind seriously mused over the question. As Mike and I ran into our local Costco, seeking shelter from the sweltering summer sun, the thought kept bouncing around my brain: “If you could ask God for one [...]
THE BENEFITS OF SINGING SCRIPTURE “One time, Dad took me to a string quartet concert, and I remember we had a really close seat, right up at the front, and I just loved it… When we were driving home, I said to my dad, ‘You know what, Dad, I really [...]
STAR POWER “I am the product of persistence. Legend has it…my father was driving down the street on the island of Montreal, and he saw this beautiful lady walking down the street…he pulled over, asked her if she wanted a ride, and she said no, so he drove away, but he [...]
FROM DISCONNECTED TO VITALLY CONNECTED “When my parents divorced, my mother sent me to an Adventist school, and our church family took very good care of us.” Amber Andrews remembers how the good times outweighed the bad during her early childhood years. “I was a tom boy, had a horse, [...]
