If You Hear God, You Might not Be Crazy

Dr. Tanya Marie Luhrman, a psychological anthropologist at Stanford University, retells an old joke: When you talk to God, we call it prayer, but when ...

Physical Hunger Parallels Our Desire for God's Presence

Author Frederica Mathewes-Green addresses people who hunger for God's presence but rarely feel it—at least not in dramatic ways. She writes:

Former Addict Meets with God During the Lord’s Supper

In his book titled The Gospel According to Jesus, Chris Seay shares the following story:

"One week I was preaching in our church about the kingdom ...

Marco Polo's Journey Parallels the Glory of Heaven

His Italian mother named him after the gospel writer Mark in the hopes that he too would tell the gospel truth. But 13th Century Europeans found it impossible ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Hears Jesus' Promise

Most people know about the passion of Martin Luther King Jr. for racial justice and nonviolent resistance. However, some people aren't as familiar ...

Knowing the God of the Bible, Not the God of Our Imaginations

In his book Soul Searching, Christian Smith summarized perceptions about God that are prevalent in the church and in contemporary culture. He said that ...

Rational Academic Finds Radical Faith

Holly Ordway was a highly educated atheist who thought Christianity was both "a historical curiosity" and "a blemish on modern civilization." ...

Maturity Changes Our Fear of God

To grow in wisdom and love is not to lose all fear of God; it is to change our fear of God. It is to pass from the servile fear of the slave, the fear ...

Woman Given 24–48 Hours to Live Learns Valuable Lessons

For 11 years, Mary Leonard of Louisville, Kentucky, has dealt with polymyositis, a rare inflammatory tissue disease that invades the muscles. There is ...

First Time of Communion Changes Woman's Life

In her memoir Take This Bread, author Sara Miles shares how the first time she ever took Communion changed her life forever. She writes:

One early, cloudy ...