Tollbooth Violations Offer a Lesson About Christ's Return

As we look at Christ's first coming this Christmas season, here's a story from CT editor Kevin Miller to help us keep in mind Christ's Second ...

John McCain Experiences the True Light of Christmas

During the 2008 presidential race, John McCain was asked by Time magazine to share his "personal journey of faith." In his article McCain shared ...

The Cock Crows the Whole Night Through on Christmas

While writing about the Nativity in his book The Faces of Jesus, author and pastor Frederick Buechner reflects on an early scene in Shakespeare's ...

Still Complaining While the Cup's Overflowing

It is a rare person who, when his cup frequently runs over, can thank God instead of complaining about the limited size of his mug!

—Bob Russell, ...

Ready Every Day

Robby Robins was an Air Force pilot during the first Iraq war. After his 300th mission, he was surprised to be given permission to immediately pull his ...

Child Shows Best Way to Prepare for Christ's Return

Wendy Murray Zoba writes in Christianity Today magazine:

If, as Jesus said, we cannot know the hour or the day [of his return], yet we also see the signs, ...

Journalist Tony Snow on the Art of Being Sick

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well. Some cancer patients recover; some don't. But the ordeal of facing your mortality ...

Spiritual Transformation Is a Joint Effort

Pastor John Ortberg writes in Leadership journal:

Significant human transformation always involves training, not just trying.

Spiritual transformation is ...

The Necessity of Hope

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.

—Emil Brunner, Swiss theologian (1889–1966)

Faith, Hope, and Healing

When the prayer made in faith is not answered, and the healing for which many have sought does not come, we are not to look for someone to accuse of failure ...