Stories

I was sitting on my back patio reading A Praying Life when my six-year-old son came up and he asked me what I was reading. I told him, “I’m reading this book...

All around me, I see the saints doing this work of ministry, building up the body of Christ and participating in God’s work of making things new. When church buildings...

I was 11 years old when I got my first lesson in nonprofit management. An ad in a Boy’s Life Magazine caught my eye. Here are a few principles God has...

It’s an unlikely story, the kind of thing that would never make it into a strategic plan, but it has God’s fingerprints all over it. Our West Coast and East...

Studying Jesus’ suffering on the way to the cross can feel heavy and dark, like one bad thing after another. But in this time of incredible pressure, his compassion, his...

When Pastor John Caprine asked Colin Millar, seeJesus’ European Coordinator, if he’d come to Las Vegas to lead a seminar at Summit Ridge, Colin recalls, “I really had to stop...

Our Bethesda team traveled to Santiago, Chile to lead a training for disability ministry leaders with Semejantes, a Chilean Joni & Friends ministry partner. The Semejantes Coordinator quickly caught Bethesda’s...

Misha sensed the Holy Spirit asking her to reach out to a couple at church. Little did she know, she was a conduit to Jesus transforming their marriage through the...

We rarely talk about Jesus' faith. One reason for this is that we’ve not considered how serious the embodiment of Jesus is. We’re so aware he’s God that we think:...

In a world shaped by wars for independence and caution about the myriad of dependencies and co-dependencies to be avoided, it’s no wonder that “dependence” isn’t often touted as a...

At a staff retreat a couple of years ago, I shared a quote from Richard Gaffin, a reformed scholar, that so startled my wife, Jill, that she nearly jumped out...

Paul Miller speaks to The Gospel Coalition 2023 about how "The Church Runs on Prayer."