What Women Want from Men

What do women want from men? Every now and again, we want somebody else to pick the restaurant, arrange the playdate, plan the seating, buy the tickets, ...

Saharan Run Shows Amazing Endurance

Charlie Engle, Ray Zahab, and Kevin Lin know endurance better than most. For 111 days, they ran the equivalent of two marathons a day in order to cross ...

Little Girl's Interesting Error

As a pastor, I occasionally have members leave notes or offerings on my desk for various reasons. A 12-year-old member of our church recently left a five-dollar ...

On Being Accident-Prone

A rabbi taught that experiences of God can never be planned or achieved. "They are spontaneous moments of grace, almost accidental."

His student ...

Man Deals with His Anger

Leroy Eims writes:

As a new Christian, I was challenged to apply my weekly Bible study personally. I was working through Colossians. The Holy Spirit caught ...

Stallone: "The Church Is the Gym of the Soul"

2006 was a year of surprises for Sylvester Stallone. First, he surprised the entertainment world by resurrecting his iconic movie hero, Rocky Balboa, ...

How to Develop Priorities

Tim Sanders—former chief solutions officer at Yahoo! and author of Love Is the Killer App—shares the following thought about establishing ...

Ladder Safety Mirrors Spiritual Safety

A Health Letter from the Mayo Clinic offered these 12 tips for ladder safety:

1. Have somebody nearby to get help if you fall. 2. Don't get on a ladder ...

The Cure for Fear Is Exposure to Fear

Mark Batterson writes in his book, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day:

I recently went to the doctor's office for an extensive battery of allergy ...

Displaced Ruler a Prisoner of His Own Appetite

Thomas Costain's book The Three Edwards describes the life of Raynald III, a 14th-century duke in what is now Belgium. Grossly overweight, Raynald ...