When God Makes You Wait

In his book It Happens After Prayer, Pastor H. B. Charles Jr. provides the following helpful illustration of why God often makes us wait for the answer ...

Supplemental Vitamins for the Body and Soul

The lack of sun in England is no longer a laughing matter. It's turning into a health risk. A recent study by the government's Scientific Advisory ...

Prayer Is Like Demolition Mining

The 20th century Norwegian pastor [Ole] Hallesby likens prayer to mining as he knew it in Norway. Demolition to create mine shafts took two basic kinds ...

You Have a Shorter Attention Span than a Goldfish

A study by Microsoft of 2,000 consumers discovered some interesting things. The first is that the average human attention span has gone down. In 2000 ...

Bus Driver Conveys Christ's Love

There was a front-page article in the San Francisco Chronicle about a metro-transit operator named Linda Wilson-Allen. She loves the people who ride her ...

Two Minutes to Live

What if I told you that walking two minutes could reduce your mortality risk? According to The New York Times, a new study (fascinatingly titled "Light-Intensity ...

The Need to Fill Our Bicycle Tires (Souls)

Editor's Note: Tell this illustration as a story or as a prop illustration by using an actual bicycle or a bike tire.

On a recent bike trip it wasn't ...

Pictures on Smartphones Can't Replace Real Life

For more than five hundred years the city of Florence has marked Easter with a wild ceremony called (in English) "the explosion of the cart." ...

Dial 0 if You're Nervous

Have you ever gotten nervous before having to make a phone call? You aren't alone. According to an article on Yahoo Finance, "Millennials have ...

Tim Keller on His Rediscovery of Prayer

Tim Keller writes in his book “Prayer”:

In the second half of my adult life, I discovered prayer. I had to. In the fall of 1999, I taught a ...