Bob Hostetler

© Mindaugas Dulinskas | istockphoto.com

Surviving Spiritual Conflict

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe new Little League baseball player had just struck out. He ran to his father in tears. “He won’t…

What Makes a Hero

Reading Time: 5 minutesBefore Iron Man, there was Spider Man. And before Spiderman, there was the Fantastic Four. And before the Fantastic…

© Marinela Malcheva | istockphoto.com

When Life Stinks

Reading Time: 6 minutesMaybe your life has been just one steady climb, rung by rung, up the ladder of success. Maybe the…

© Aksana Kavaleuskaya | istockphoto.com

A LEGACY of  Leadership

Reading Time: 5 minutesI picked up the hotel room movie guide and was struck by the tag line for a program titled…

© bodrumsurf | istockphoto.com

A Whole New You

Reading Time: 5 minutesMy daughter, Aubrey, was ten or eleven years old the time she and I went together to the grocery…

Mission: Jubilee!

Reading Time: 4 minutesIt was early on the morning of the Sabbath. Bearded, robed men passed between rows of pillars as they took…

How to Find the Love of Your Life

Reading Time: 6 minutesAt sixteen years old, I found the love of my life at a Salvation Army camp. Three years later,…

How to Hear from God

Reading Time: 5 minutesWouldn’t it be nice to hear from God? For students who are struggling to choose a school, a major, a…

Thy Kingdom Come

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe 2000 movie Pay It Forward tells the story of a seventh grader named Trevor, whose new social studies…

river at sunset

Music to God’s Ears: How to Pray the Hymnal

Reading Time: 4 minutesI worship every week in a contemporary church. Hymns occur infrequently during the worship service, but they…