Math Test Humbles the Brainiest Students

In Time Lev Grossman writes:

Every year on the first Saturday in December, twenty-five hundred of the most brilliant college students in North America ...

Church Buys Shoes for Kids Who Make Good Choices

A few weeks after I began pastoring Messiah Presbyterian Church in Lubbock, Texas, I heard a teacher from a nearby elementary school tell about a boy ...

Grace Overwhelms U2

Bono, lead singer of the band U2, recently said: "The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years—the idea ...

Don't Recycle Old Life

In the late 1920s my grandparents married and moved into Grandpa's old family home. It was a clapboard house with a hall down the middle. In the '30s ...

Partnering with God

Without God we can't; without us he won't.

Part of a Bigger Plan

Faith gets tested when a sense of God's presence fades or when the very ordinances of life make us question whether our responses even matter.

We wonder, ...

Actions Show Beliefs

Your behavior is a reflection of what you truly believe.

Trusting Only in Christ's Blood

A Reader's Digest article told of a 67-year-old man named Bill who had donated over 100 pints of blood over the years. No doubt many people owe their ...

Preaching that Works

Words without deeds are empty, but deeds without words are dumb. It is stupid to set them against each other. It is, for example, stupid to say: "The ...

Already Half-Dead?

If we refuse to take the risk of being vulnerable, we are already half-dead. If you are half-dead, you don't have to starve with the people of Ethiopia. ...