Costly Devotion

One day in the spring of 2001, Ken Waters awakened in his own bed for the first time in 19 years. Nineteen years ago Ken Waters was sentenced to life ...

Keeping Promises

Writer and speaker Lewis Smedes says:

Yes, somewhere people still make and keep promises. They choose not to quit when the going gets rough because they ...

Rules in the Home Help Teens

The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse has released an extensive study on teens and substance abuse. Their main finding was that "teens ...

A Father Who Won't Affirm

In We Are Still Married, Garrison Keillor writes:

The town ball club was the Lake Wobegon Schroeders, so named because the starting nine were brothers, ...

Cal Ripken: Loving His Children

Baseball ironman Cal Ripken, Jr. said:

Growing up, "I love you" wasn't spread around too much in our household. Not that it wasn't meant. I could tell ...

"Mr. Holland's Opus": Leaving a Legacy

Mr. Holland's Opus is a movie about a frustrated composer in Portland, Oregon, who takes a job as a high school band teacher in the 1960s. Although ...

Are Fathers Necessary?

In How Now Shall We Live, Chuck Colson notes the disturbing realities that plague children who grow up without a father:

Children in single-parent families ...

Knowing God's Acceptance

In his book, Connecting, Larry Crabb writes:

A friend of mine was raised in an angry family. Mealtimes were either silent or sarcastically noisy. Down ...

"The Straight Story": Yearning for Reconciliation

The movie The Straight Story is based on a true story and chronicles the pilgrimage of a 73 year-old man to mend a broken relationship with his brother, ...

Parental Involvement Deters Drug Use

According to a survey conducted by Columbia University's Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA), "Almost one in five American teens say ...