Content with God's Timing

In his autobiography, Buck O'Neill tells of being a black man who played professional baseball before African-Americans were allowed to play in the all-white ...

George Clooney's Insomnia

In Men's Journal, writer Doug Stanton talks about actor George Clooney's obsession with work:

"Most of the time," [Clooney] says, "I ...

Dedicated to Futility

"One of the things that really attracts me about mountaineering is its total pointlessness. So I've dedicated my life to it."

—Tom ...

Justice without God?

In Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis offers one philosophical explanation for the existence of God:

In the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist—in ...

Your Part in Life’s Drama

In his novel, Edge of Eternity, Randy Alcorn compares our lives on earth to those of the characters in a novel. He writes:

Each character is placed in ...

Albert Einstein and Mysteries

In Albert Einstein's early days physicists had scratched their heads for some 50 years over the unexplainable orbit of the planet Mercury. Newton's theories ...

The Gift of Grace Requires a Response

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without ...

We Were Born to Give

In Run with the Horses, Eugene Peterson tells how he saw a family of birds teaching their young to fly. Three young swallows were perched on a dead branch ...

The Real Spiritual Life

True spirituality manifests itself in certain dominant desires.

1. First is the desire to be holy rather than happy.

2. A man may be considered spiritual ...

No More Fugues

The idea that one would build a chair or write a fugue for the sake of making the best chair or music one can is foreign to our culture, even our religious ...