Stallone: "The Church Is the Gym of the Soul"

2006 was a year of surprises for Sylvester Stallone. First, he surprised the entertainment world by resurrecting his iconic movie hero, Rocky Balboa, ...

C. S. Lewis on God's Will

"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your ...

How Tuning Forks Produce Tone

Consider a tuning fork. It delivers a true pitch by two tines vibrating together. Muffle either side, even a little, and the note disappears. Neither ...

Pioneers' Self-Reliance Led to Isolation

The Europeans who came to settle North America found it vast and unexplored. "Self-reliant" was the watchword, and the scout, the mountain man ...

Holy Spirit Like a Moving Sidewalk

Pastor and author Tony Evans says:

One day I was in an airport rushing to catch a plane. I was sweating and puffing when I looked to my right and saw a ...

Never Do It Alone

In his fictional short story, Top Man, mountaineer James Ramsey Ullman writes of a three-man mountain-climbing team in the Himalayas that pitches camp—really ...

Rock Musician Trent Reznor on Religion

In a Rolling Stone interview, Trent Reznor, the lead musician of the rock band Nine Inch Nails, muses on how his anti-religion stance helped lead him ...

Finding Peace through Adversity

Marie J. Wiebe, an ordained minister for the Evangelical Covenant Church in Camarillo, California, describes her difficult recovery from a massive stroke: ...

Doing It Our Way

We need, all of us, to be in control of our lives, and we shrink them until they're small and mean enough so that we can feel in control.

Freedom through Dependence

Whenever God touches sin it is independence that is touched, and that awakens resentment in the human heart. Independence must be blasted clean out, there ...