Showing Dignity at Airline Ticket Counter

In an article for Leadership journal, Gordon MacDonald shares the story of a friend who was caught in the middle of a nasty church conflict that had spun ...

Dealing with the Cow-pie-ridden Fields of Marriage

In his book This Momentary Marriage: A Parable of Permanence, pastor and author John Piper offers a memorable analogy for dealing with the highs and lows ...

The Day the Students Went on Strike

Anne Miller, age 22, was a few weeks into her first real teaching job—a summer program teaching at-risk middle schoolers—when she walked into ...

The Power of "Redemptive Waiting"

In a sermon, Pastor Bryan Wilkerson shared the following story:

Years ago I visited one of my kids' pre-school classes. On this particular day, the ...

Suicidal Man Pushed Off Bridge

The Bible says of Jesus the Messiah, "A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out." To understand an idea ...

Most Common Complaints Men Have About Women—and Vice Versa

University of Louisville psychologist Michael Cunningham recently did an extensive study of the most common complaints men and women have about each other. ...

God Helps Boy Deal with Uncontrollable Temper

After successfully separating numerous Siamese twins and continuing to refine the techniques of several complicated surgeries, Dr. Ben Carson has become ...

"Wall•E": Unprepared to Go Home

In many ways the Pixar's animated film Wall•E is a story about coming home. It tells the story of a lonely robot who for 700 years has been cleaning ...

Men Are Computers, Women Are Cell Phones

Rhonda Rhea writes in "Men Are Computers, Women Are Cell Phones”:

"I don't know how we're going to sort out tonight's schedule," ...

Congregation of One Makes Big Decision

After his ordination in 1969, author and pastor Phillip Johnson received a call to serve one large church and ten smaller churches on the northern coast ...