Peter sent them all out of the room. He knelt down, prayed, and turning toward the body said, ‘Tabitha, get up.’ She opened her eyes, saw Peter, and sat up.” My favorite part of the book of Acts is that we often get to read the rest of the story. The apostles did these amazing […]
Meredith Flynn
She had (almost) everything
When we first meet the woman of Shunem in 2 Kings 4, she’s got a lot going for her. She’s hospitable, welcoming the prophet Elijah into her home for a meal every time he passes through town. She also has resources—enough to build an addition onto her home for Elijah to use as he comes […]
A fate worse than death
I was around 12 years old the first time I got a glimpse of my own mortality. I had a migraine at school, realizing something was wrong when I could read only half of every question on the science test I was taking. Even after the vision disturbance and the terrible headache to follow had […]
Ruth’s surrendered life
Don’t plead with me to abandon you or to return and not follow you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God” (Ruth 1:16). A few months after I moved to Illinois, I was assigned to […]
Dear Mary
Early on the first day of the week, after he had risen, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons” (Mark 16:9). After her earth-shattering meeting with Jesus, Mary Magdalene told his friends he was alive! Even though they didn’t believe her at first, delivering that message must have […]
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