Praise God with Your 23,000 Breaths per Day

You take approximately 23,000 breaths every day, but when was the last time you thanked God for one of them? The process of inhaling oxygen and exhaling ...

Psalm 23 without God, the Shepherd

Here's what Psalm 23 looks like when we remove the Shepherd from our lives:

1 my ... I shallbe in want.

2 me ... me

3 my soul ... me

4 I walk through ...

The Third Stage of Prayer—Giving Thanks

The Minnesota storyteller Kevin Kling was born with a birth defect—his left arm was disabled and much shorter than his right. Then, in his early ...

Restored Sistine Chapel Reveals Maker's True Splendor

The Sistine Chapel is one of the true jewels of world art. After spending four years painting it, Michelangelo finished his masterpiece in 1512, and the ...

Actor Tim Allen Struggles to Trust God

The actor Tim Allen's father died when Allen was 11 years old. A drunk driver crashed into their car as his dad was driving home from a college football ...

Stephen King on His Belief in God

When the bestselling writer Stephen King was interviewed by NPR's Terry Gross, King shared some interesting thoughts about his faith in God. At one ...

God Is the Most Joyous Being in the Universe

The Christian philosopher Dallas Willard wrote that God is "the most joyous being in the universe." Willard illustrated with the following story: ...

Thanking God in the Midst of ALS

In the fall of 2000, former megachurch pastor Ed Dobson was diagnosed with ALS (or Lou Gehrig's disease), a degenerative disease with no known cause ...

Young Boy Underestimates His Father's Generosity

Steve DeNeff and David Drury write in “Soul Shift”:

One time, my dad wanted to congratulate me on something I had accomplished in the sixth ...

Comedian Louis C.K. on Our Ingratitude and Impatience

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