Lingering Effects of Anger

Author and church minister Ed Rowell writes:

When I was young, a neighboring family came down with a devastating illness. Several of the children died, ...

Laughter Is Good Medicine

The old axiom, "Laughter is the best medicine," holds true when it comes to protecting your heart, according to a study conducted by the University ...

Prayer Better Than Selfishness

Those people who pray know what most around them either don't know or choose to ignore: centering life in the insatiable demands of the ego is the ...

Perfection Is Servanthood

Perfection, in a Christian sense, means becoming mature enough to give ourselves to others.

Humility Defined

What is humility? It is that habitual quality whereby we live in the truth of things: the truth that we are creatures and not the Creator; the truth that ...

Sow Kindness, You'll Need It

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak ...

Humorous Lessons from Noah

There is a well-known book titled, Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. Let me suggest another: Everything I Need to Know I Learned from ...

Obeying Our Commanding Officer

My friend's father, an Army sergeant, tried for 25 years to quit smoking. After multiple failed attempts, he went in for his yearly medical exam with ...

Christmas Any Time

In June I was waiting in a clinic for my doctor's appointment when an older couple arrived. "Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas!" the older ...

Keeping Discouragement at Bay

A man stopped to watch a Little League baseball game. He asked one of the youngsters what the score was. "We're losing 18-0," was the answer. ...