When God Makes You Wait

In his book It Happens After Prayer, Pastor H. B. Charles Jr. provides the following helpful illustration of why God often makes us wait for the answer ...

Film Producer on the Universe's Indifference

Here's how the late film director Stanley Kubrick (1928-199) explained his view of life: "The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create ...

Grandmothers Stress Over Grandchildren

Sin's ability to disintegrate the soul is the subject of a book by a Duke professor named Dan Ariely. In The Honest Truth about Dishonesty: How We ...

Tim Keller on His Rediscovery of Prayer

Tim Keller writes in his book “Prayer”:

In the second half of my adult life, I discovered prayer. I had to. In the fall of 1999, I taught a ...

You Can't Exhaust Lake Tahoe's Water Supply

Lake Tahoe is the eighth deepest lake in the world. On July 4, 1875, two men discovered the deepest point in the lake to be 1645 feet by lowering a weighted ...

Passengers on Sinking Ship Refuse Lifejacket Help

On May 7, 1915, the R.M.S Lusitania, a British ocean liner, was struck by a torpedo from a German submarine. The ship sank in a matter of minutes, killing ...

College President Faces Cancer with Faith

Steve Hayner, the 66-year-old beloved president of Columbia Theological Seminary, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. After tests had revealed that ...

The Secret to Effective Tightrope Walking

There's a special word for those tightrope walkers who display amazing feats of balance on a high wire—they're called funambulists. In his ...

Sailboat on the Ocean Loses It's Keel and Ballast

Michael Plant was experienced and passionate about sailing the ocean's wild winds. But his third trip around the world was different. He designed ...

Film 'Gravity': 'Nobody Ever Taught Me to Pray'

In the movie Gravity, veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (played by George Clooney) is in charge of the Shuttle Explorer's STS-157 mission to repair ...