Confession Prepares the Heart

Max Lucado writes:

Confession does for the soul what preparing the land does for the field. Before the farmer sows the seed, he works the acreage, removing ...

Discerning the Details

The floor of the Princeton gym was being resurfaced, so Princeton basketball standout (and later U.S. Senator) Bill Bradley had to put in several practice ...

Tozer Thirsts for God

Pastor and writer A. W. Tozer lacked even a high-school education, but he read the great Christian mystics and theologians until he could read and write ...

Small Changes Net Big Rewards

"Just by making a few small changes in your life, you can really make a big difference in your savings and retirement," says Bryan Olson of ...

Giving Teaches Dependence

When we let go of money, we are letting go of part of ourselves and part of our security. But this is precisely why it is important to do it. It is one ...

Natural Drift from Holiness

People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, ...

Seeking God Brings Happiness

"Seek God, not happiness" [from a Kempis' The Imitation of Christ]—that is the fundamental rule of all meditation. If you seek God ...

Healthful Community

Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, "Let [the person] who cannot be alone beware of community. Let [the person] who is not in community beware of being alone." ...

God Plans Our Growth

When I first ran track in prep school, my coach invited me to his home for dinner one night. After the meal, he pulled out a notebook displaying my name ...

Common Spirituality

Spirituality in human beings is not an extra or "superior" mode of existence. It's not a hidden stream of separate reality, a separate life ...