Thomas Merton on the Uselessness of Planning Our Own Answers to Prayer

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our ...

Studs Terkel on Work

How do you feel about your job? Studs Terkel, the famous Chicago author, interviewed hundreds of people about their jobs and recorded what they said in ...

Prayer: Where Two Struggles Meet

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around ...

Spending Habits in the World of Virtual Games

Many use Facebook as a way to keep in touch with friends and acquaintances, but others use it to play games that involve virtual farms, virtual pets, ...

Man Gives to Beggar for Wrong Reason

Author Ed Dobson wrote a book titled The Year of Living Like Jesus, in which he tells the story in diary form of how he tried to live as Jesus lived and ...

The Parade Nobody Gets to Watch

In his book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, Donald Miller describes a New Year's Day parade held in San Diego. But this was no ordinary parade. ...

A Conversation with a Waitress Changes Everything for Minister

Hugh Halter, co-author of The Tangible Kingdom, shares a moment that changed the way he approaches unbelievers:

Two weeks after 9/11, I was in Queens, ...

Marry a Wife—and Her Car

In his sermon, The Discipline of Communal Examination, Skye Jethani said:

A few years before I married my wife, Amanda, she bought a car with the help ...

Eugene Peterson on the Story of the Manure (Luke 13:6-9)

In his book Tell It Slant, author Eugene Peterson uses the short parable in Luke 13:6-9—a parable about manure, of all things—to talk about ...

Grace Should Encourage a Life Well-lived

In his best-selling book The Reason for God, Tim Keller, pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian in Manhattan, shares the story of a woman in his congregation ...