Keeping Christ in Christmas

Evangelist Luis Palau tells of a wealthy European family that decided to have their newborn baby baptized in their enormous mansion. Dozens of guests ...

Acknowledging the Creator

My wife and I recently went on vacation. Upon our return my wife began proudly showing off our latest set of vacation photos, and then each day she'd ...

Cradle of J.S. Bach's Creativity

After various moves and prominent jobs, [classical composer Johann Sebastian Bach] finally settled down in Leipzig in 1723, where he remained for the ...

Singing to Jesus

At a youth camp, the camp pastor told us how much he missed his son Noah. He asked if we would be willing to sing to his son over his cell phone. So together ...

Alec Guinness Ecstatic about God

What would compel [the late actor Alec Guinness,] this most reserved and private of superstars, to run through a London street and then fall on his knees? ...

J.S. Bach and the Bible

When he was 48, Johann Sebastian Bach (who died in 1750) acquired a copy of Luther's three-volume translation of the Bible. He pored over it as if ...

Agnostic Recoils from Worship

Wendy Kaminer, an avowed agnostic who has authored five books, including, Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety, ...

God's Overwhelming Providence

Author Philip Yancey writes:

In high school, I took pride in my ability to play chess. I joined the chess club, and during lunch hour could be found sitting ...

Faking Out God?

Research psychologists have found there are at least three situations when we are not ourselves. First, the average person puts on airs when he visits ...

Prayer That Pleases God

If our churches don't pray, and if people don't have an appetite for God, what does it matter how many are attending the services? How would that ...