Lost Your Faith or Had None to Begin With?

Ian Leitch writes in Life Before Death! A Restored, Regenerated, and Renewed Life:

A businessman asked me if I would speak to his staff, and I readily ...

J. I. Packer on the Hope of Christmas

The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity—hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory—because at the Father's ...

John McCain Experiences the True Light of Christmas

During the 2008 presidential race, John McCain was asked by Time magazine to share his "personal journey of faith." In his article McCain shared ...

A Christmas Poem: "Because One Child Is Born"

More light than we can learn, More wealth than we can treasure, More love than we can earn, More peace than we can measure, Because one Child is born. ...

Aquinas on Explanations

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

—Thomas Aquinas, Italian Roman Catholic priest, ...

Experiencing the Beauty of Peace in Bethlehem

For reasons I cannot quite remember (perhaps the guidebooks or the guide himself told us it wasn't much to get worked up about), I wasn't excited ...

Philip Yancey on Observing a Mellow, Domesticated Christmas

When the Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci went to China in the sixteenth century, he brought along samples of religious art to illustrate the Christian ...

Missions Work in Our Own Backyard

Joshua Massey writes in "Hometown Ministry as Pre-Field Preparation”:

[Vern], an elder at my church, listened patiently as I described my vision ...

Jim Cymbala on Rudy Giuliani's Post-9/11 Reflections

On that tragic morning of September 11, 2001, The Brooklyn Tabernacle lost four of its members. One victim was a police officer. The officer's funeral ...

Ready Every Day

Robby Robins was an Air Force pilot during the first Iraq war. After his 300th mission, he was surprised to be given permission to immediately pull his ...