Empty Promises

A "Bonehead of the Day" e-mail reported on a newfangled toy recently released for distribution:

A U.S. company has an action figure called Invisible ...

What Quenches Spiritual Thirst

In his book Sahara Unveiled, William Langewiesche tells the story of an Algerian named Lag Lag and a companion whose truck broke down while crossing the ...

Fuel of Happiness

British theologian C.S. Lewis described happiness 50 years ago in terms that make even more sense today in our commuter-driven society:

A car is made to ...

Hungering for God

"Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling ...

Pursuit of Happiness

In Dangers, Toils & Snares, John Ortberg writes:

When we take our children to the shrine of the Golden Arches, they always lust for the meal that comes ...

Toys Never Satisfy

Men are merely taller children. Honor, wealth, and splendor are the toys for which grown children pine; but which, however accumulated, leave them still ...

Cooking and Communion

One preacher recalls the first time he was asked to teach a seminary class about Communion. He went to an older colleague and said, "How shall I begin? ...

Root of All Evil

Once the longing for money comes, the longing also comes for what money can give: superfluities, nice rooms, luxuries at table, more clothes, fans and ...

No Earthly Satisfaction

God has set Eternity in our heart, and man's infinite capacity cannot be filled or satisfied with the things of time and sense.

Only God Satisfies

The man or woman who does not know God demands an infinite satisfaction from other human beings which they cannot give, and in the case of the man, he ...