The Powerful Act of Naming

In the article "Leading by Naming," Mark Labberton speaks of the power names carry:

Every day our naming of the people around us gives life and ...

"Princess Diaries": Reluctant Royalty

The Princess Diaries tells the story of Amelia Thermopolis, a shy, awkward teen whose only goal in life is to be invisible. She tries to get through each ...

Children's Book, "The Velveteen Rabbit," on How to Become Real

The beauty that comes from experiencing God's love through exposure to the body of Christ is much like the quality of becoming "Real" in ...

The Stockholm Syndrome

"The term Stockholm Syndrome first occurred in 1973 at an attempted bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden. A man tried to rob a bank, and the police ...

Presenting the Real "I" in Prayer

The prayer preceding all prayers is "May it be the real I who speaks."

The Christmas Story Never Told

"Behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, 'Arise and take the young child and his mother and flee into Egypt' ...

The Inexpressible Name

There are two hundred and fifty-six names given in the Bible for the Lord Jesus Christ, and I suppose this was because He was infinitely beyond all that ...

Truly Owning the Name

The title of Christian is a reproach to us if we turn our selves away from him after whom we are named. The name of Jesus is not to be to us like Allah ...

The Gifts of a Dishwasher

In 1994, Alex Dovales was drifting toward Miami on a rickety boat with twenty-seven other Cubans. Two years later, Dovales saw fourteen exhausted, penniless ...

Honored by Association

In the town of Stepanavan, Armenia, I met a woman whom everyone called "Palasan's wife." She had her own name, of course, but townspeople ...