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A daily devotional from Moody Bible Institute: The hymn writer Isaac Watts once wrote, “Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.”

A daily devotional from Moody Bible Institute: A friend of mine needed a heart transplant. As he waited, he shared with me that it was hard for him to pray that he would receive one.

A daily devotional from Moody Bible Institute: Last year 431,322 people applied for asylum in the United States.

A daily devotional from Moody Bible Institute: Did you have a favorite childhood story—one you read again and again?

A daily devotional from Moody Bible Institute: Pride is a dangerous and destructive sin. It can skew our view of the world and our place in it.

A daily devotional from Moody Bible Institute: How do you distinguish between true and fake love? A quick internet search provides plenty of advice.

Divine Silence? Our Feeling of Being Overwhelmed Pastor Gregory Fryer has taken a tip from the Peanuts comic. Outside his church on the upper east side of New York City, every Tuesday morning he sets up a yellow booth like Lucy’s (“Psychiatric Help 5¢”) and offers prayers, Bible stories, and a listening ear for a nickel. He even has a plate...

Divine Silence? Our Feeling of Emptiness Following God’s victory at Mount Carmel, the prophet Elijah fled from the vengeful anger of Queen Jezebel. After providing food, water, and rest for His exhausted and depressed servant, God told Elijah to stand at the entrance to the cave in which he was resting at Mount Horeb. First came a powerful...

Silence and Spiritual Walk: The Silence of Empathy Visiting people in the hospital and sitting by sickbeds is very often a ministry of listening and silence. What we might want to say to comfort and encourage them is very often the wrong thing or mere platitudes—nothing truly helpful, and sometimes things that are actually harmful. But to...

Silence and Spiritual Walk: The Quiet Strength of Faith In To Know as We Are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey, Parker J. Palmer wrote of his efforts to establish a discipline of silence in his classrooms: “Eventually my students feel a sense of community in the silence that is deeper than what they feel when the words are flowing fast...