Steven Curtis Chapman on Pressing Closer to God

In Christian Reader, Steven Curtis Chapman says:

I have learned that we can control where we allow things that we can't understand to fall. They either ...

Be Patient with Me, I'm Happening

George Sanchez writes in Discipleship Journal:

I was visiting my daughter's home when my grandson grabbed my hand to take me to see something. My daughter ...

The Point of an Open Mind

"The point of an open mind, like having an open mouth, is to close it on something solid."

Book Budget

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.

The Truth About Reading

Reading ought to be an act of homage to the God of all truth. We open our hearts to words that reflect the reality he has created or the greater reality ...

Bad Thinking

Three old men were at the doctor for a memory test. The doctor said to the first old man, "What is one plus one?"

"Two hundred seventy-four," ...

Touching the Hurting

Len Sweet in Postmodern Pilgrims recounts a letter a physician wrote to a church-related magazine:

Today I visited an eight-year-old girl dying of cancer. ...

Beethoven's Unknowing Self-Poisoning

An Illinois scientist recently uncovered the likely cause of Ludwig von Beethoven's death. After studying strands of Beethoven's hair, Dr. William ...

Power of Curiosity

In For the Time Being, Pulitzer Prize winning author Annie Dillard writes:

In Highland New Guinea, now Papua New Guinea, a British district officer named ...

Finding the Real Problem

I was back in my home state of California, working as a nurse in a busy emergency room. We had a regular visitor who tugged at my heart. His name was ...