The Old Woman Who Prayed in Silence
She sat in the back pew, fourth from the end, always on the left. No one knew her name. The church was half full most Sundays, more on holidays, but she was always there before […]
Faith Focus: Christian Stories
The Man Who Heard God’s Voice in Prison
The guards called him “Ghost.” Not because of anything supernatural—though some swore they saw him talking to the air, eyes fixed on something no one else could see—but because he moved through the prison like […]
A Knife, a Bible, and a New Heart
The knife was sharp, and his fingers trembled as he held it. Jorge had done this before—too many times to count. Not to himself, but to others. There was a rhythm to survival in the […]
The Handprint on the Church Door
It was barely dawn when Ruth noticed the handprint. She had come early, as she always did on Saturdays, to clean the sanctuary before the Sunday service. The little country church, nestled at the bend […]
The Missionary Who Wasn’t Ready
The air in the small Ethiopian village was dry and thin, scented with dust, firewood smoke, and eucalyptus. James sat on the edge of his narrow cot in the concrete room the local pastor had […]
The Day He Burned His Porn
It was a Thursday, gray and drizzling. The kind of day when everything feels a little heavier, a little closer to the edge. Daniel sat in his car outside the hardware store, engine running, windshield […]
The Thief Who Sang Amazing Grace
It was nearly midnight when Officer Brenner found him—curled up in the back pew of the little chapel that sat forgotten between the gas station and the shuttered florist. Rain dripped from the brim of […]
The Widow Who Fed a Prophet
The drought had not broken in over a year. Every leaf in Zarephath had withered into brittle dust. The earth cracked beneath sandals, and the sky had hardened into brass. There were no songs in […]
The Stranger at the Funeral
It wasn’t the rain that made the funeral feel colder than it should have. The sky had been weeping since dawn, a slow and steady drizzle that draped the cemetery in gray. But it was […]
A Rose in the Rainstorm
The rain had been falling since morning, steady and cold, drenching the streets of the small town where Hannah lived alone in the weathered house with the blue shutters. By afternoon, the gutters were full […]