My prayer for you is the same as Paul prayed for the believers in Ephesus: “May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep His love really is” (Ephesians 3:17,18). We have the potential to love anyone God puts in our path. One of the greatest lessons I have learned in my Christian life is “how to love by faith.” We may think we have lost our

One day Peter asked Jesus how many times he had to forgive someone. Peter thought that forgiving seven times was pretty good. “No!” Jesus replied, “seventy times seven!” (Matthew 18:22). Then Jesus gave an illustration showing how God looks on our responsibility to forgive: One day, a king was going over his accounts, settling old debts. He saw that one of his servants owed him millions of dollars. The king ordered the servant brought before him. When he arrived, the king d

Their fathers were ministers. They were students at a private Christian college. They were in love. And they were sexually involved. “In the arms of this man, I thought I’d found love,” Sydna said. As they pursued their relationship, the unexpected happened. Sydna became pregnant at nineteen years of age. “After I walked through the [clinic] doors and they told me I was pregnant, I was faced with a choice. Here I was—a boyfriend who was unsupportive, who said he’d leave