The Importance of Expecting Our Departure

Prepare your heart for your departure. If you are wise, you will expect it every hour.

—Saint Isaac the Syrian, seventh century mystic

Studs Terkel on Work

How do you feel about your job? Studs Terkel, the famous Chicago author, interviewed hundreds of people about their jobs and recorded what they said in ...

Choices Make Us One of Two Creatures

Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was ...

Baseball Star Albert Pujols: Jesus Satisfies My Soul Forever"

Albert Pujols, the first baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals, is a World Series champ, an eight-time All Star, the recipient of three National League ...

Grace Should Encourage a Life Well-lived

In his best-selling book The Reason for God, Tim Keller, pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian in Manhattan, shares the story of a woman in his congregation ...

Comedian Reflects on Our Constant Ingratitude

Editor's Note: The segment referenced in this illustration contains a moment where God's name is taken in vain. With that in mind, you might not ...

New Year's Resolutions and the Importance of Community

With a new year just around the corner, most of us are busy scribbling down resolutions. We desire radical change in the way we look, the way we behave, ...

A Good Goal for the New Year: Intercepting Entropy

In a sermon John Ortberg once reflected on one of the greatest enemies of the human spirit. Though the sermon is close to three years old, it lays out ...

A.W. Tozer on the Irony of What We've Made of Christmas

Christ came to bring peace and we celebrate his coming by making peace impossible for six weeks of each year …. He came to help the poor and we ...

A Deeper Reason for Our Christmas Greed

In his book Things Unseen: Living with Eternity in Your Heart, Mark Buchanan points out how we all continually live for the "Next Thing"—the ...