Watch What You Ask For

My granddaughter overheard conversations about an occasional heart problem--loud beating--I experienced when I would try to sleep. One evening her father ...

Walking Wounded

After receiving the news that our son had been born, both sets of grandparents arrived at the hospital together. Just getting out of the car was quite ...

Truth Is the Road Map

Truth is the road map for negotiating the difficult challenges of life. Without it we get lost and we develop emotional problems that tell us we're lost. ...

Absence Excuses

Ever stay home from school because of a hurting fish?

Ralph did.

Yep, some guy named Ralph missed school one day, and came in the next morning with this ...

What Sin Isn't

Many people confuse the conviction of sin with such feelings as inferiority, lack of self-confidence and so on. Yet whoever observes people closely can ...

The Importance of Exercise

God only gave you one body, so you better be nice to it. Exercise, because if you don't, by the time you're our age [103 and 105], you'll be pushing up ...

Figure Out How to Die Well

Despite the quest for wellness, risk-assessment analysis, and (environmentalists) nobody has yet created a way to make life last forever. You and I will ...

A Second Opinion

To start a discussion on core values, our youth pastor asked the teenagers: "What would you do if your doctor told you that you had only 24 hours ...

Love's Nourishment

Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all life's hazards, save one--neglect.

The Sign of Pain

I had to have blood drawn at the doctor's office, and my five-year-old daughter, Mary, came along. When the nurse held up the needle, Mary never blinked. ...