John Nash on Escapism

"Madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better. In madness, I thought I was the most important ...

Our Lives Belong to God

Writing on the topic of worship, author Greg Laurie shares the following:

I heard the story of a woman who had finished shopping and returned to her car. ...

Seeing, or Just Looking?

Andras Tamas is the name officials gave a certain man decades ago in a Russian psychiatric hospital. He'd been drafted into the army, but the authorities ...

Reality Check

Face reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

Catch-22 of Incompetence

Most incompetent people don't know they are incompetent. In fact, researcher Dr. David A. Dunning of Cornell University reports that people who are ...

Pay Attention to the Instrument Panel

An airplane pilot is not to trust his own instincts in a storm, but to trust the instrument panel. Instincts can be wrong if he experiences vertigo. Just ...

The Enemy Is Us

A man's worst enemy, I tell you, will never do him the harm he does himself.

Don't Ignore Small Snakes

For eight years Sally had been the Romero family pet. When they got her, she was only one foot long. But Sally grew until eventually she reached eleven-and-a-half ...

Sounding the Magical Note

All preachers must struggle for that magical note somewhere between a trumpet of uncertain sound that brings no one to battle and the tin horn that thinks ...

Desperately Wicked

The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood lurks, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often ...