A Dying Girl Shows Honor of Serving God

Pediatrician David Cerqueira shares a story of how a dying girl showed his church the honor of serving God:

One Sunday my wife had prepared a lesson on ...

How to Give Glory to God

The glory of God is man fully alive.

—Irenaeus, early Church Father (died c. 200)

Alone in the Wind for God

Certain it is that the reason there is so much shallow living—much talk but little obedience—is that so few are prepared to be, like the pine ...

Man Encounters Lazy Shoe Repair Shop

I read a story in the L. A. Times a long time ago. A guy goes to the house where he grew up and knocks on the door. Because he hadn't been there for ...

Defining Your Calling

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

—Frederick Buechner, U.S. writer and preacher ...

"Affluenza": Swollen Expectations

Affluenza is an hour-long PBS documentary about consumerism and its harmful effects on the family, the community, and the environment.

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Relying on a Resurrecting God

We are not to be surprised if living as Christians brings us to the place where we find we are at the end of our own resources, and that we are called ...

An Odd and Challenging Resurrection

The evidence for Jesus' resurrection is so strong that nobody would question it except for two things: First, it is a very unusual event. And second, ...

Jack Nicholson on Life and Death

In the 2007 film The Bucket List, two terminally ill men—played by Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman—take a road trip to do the things they ...

True Commitment to the Good Shepherd

"The Lord is my Shepherd" is written on many more tombstones than lives.

—Dallas Willard, U.S. philosopher and writer (1935—2013)