Song Describes the Father Girls Want

The human need to be well-fathered is illustrated by the enormous response to Bob Carlisle's 1996 ballad, "Butterfly Kisses." The song speaks ...

Angel Describes Different Prayers

At the beginning of his novel based on the apocryphal book of Tobit, Frederick Buechner captures this wonderful insight on prayer through one of his characters, ...

Choices Breed Dissatisfaction

Author Bill Bryson noticed many changes when he returned to America after spending 20 years overseas. One observation he made involved the amount of choices ...

Python Explodes After Swallowing an Alligator

Wildlife researcher Michael Barron was making his way through Florida's Everglades National Park when he stumbled onto a gruesome demonstration of ...

Donald Miller Realizes the Selfishness of His Gift

In his book Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller writes about a Christmas Eve when his view of God was changed, and how that affected his perspective on everything ...

Destroyer Ignored "Friendly" Missile

During the 1982 Falkland Islands conflict, the British Royal Navy felt that its ships were safe from attack because of a sophisticated defense system ...

Brennan Manning on What Makes Us Happy or Sad

Christian author Brennan Manning calls us to examine the cause of our emotions:

To ascertain where you really are with the Lord, recall what saddened you ...

Demons Are Attracted to the Garbage in Our Lives

As significant as demonic influence may be, it is never the primary issue in someone's life. It may be a deadly, destructive consequence or fruit, ...

Bottled Water Is an Irrational Consumer Preference

According to New York Times columnist Tom Standage, "Americans are squandering billions of dollars on bottled water." Outsold only by soda, ...

"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" Illustrates Sin's Effect

In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the character, Edmund Pevensie, personifies gluttony, the sin of excessively using things in themselves legitimate, ...