Jesus relentlessly undermines all that is not god to make room for the God who has redeemed our hearts.

Several years ago I ran a marathon. I trained hard to be as prepared as possible, but there's a part of a marathon that's always hard to prepare for. A marathon is just a little over 26 miles, but experts tell you not to run over 20 miles in your training. That means the last six miles of a marathon are "no man's land." You don't know what you're getting yourself into. You may hit a wall. You may ...

I want to die the same way Wilson Bentley died.

Wilson grew up on a farm in Jericho, Vermont, and as a young boy he developed a fascination with snowflakes. Obsession might be a better word for it. Most people go indoors during snowstorms. Not Wilson. He would run outside when the flakes started falling, catch them on black velvet, look at them under a microscope, and take photographs of them before ...

Thousands are coming to hear him preach. His ministry has gone global. He has a new book coming out. That's quite a résumé for a boy without any arms or legs!

Nick Vujicic, a 25-year-old Australian, was born without limbs. Vujicic's parents, devout Christians who planted a church in Australia 11 months before Nick was born, found it hard to understand how God could use their son's loss for ...

The glory of God is man fully alive.

—Irenaeus, early Church Father (died c. 200)

On February 25, 2008, the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released a study entitled The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey. Based on interviews with 35,556 adults, America is "constantly shifting amid religious choices" and "unaware or unconcerned with doctrinal distinctions." Here are some telling highlights from the study:

• Forty-four percent of those surveyed said they've abandoned "the religious or secular upbringing of their childhood."
  
  

If any athlete was known for focus, it was Michael Jordan. In Jordan's book, Driven from Within, Fred Whitfield, president and chief operating officer of the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats basketball team, tells a fascinating story about something Jordan did while getting ready to go out one evening. When Jordan asked if he could borrow a jacket from Whitfield, he found that Whitfield's closet was filled ...

By the time of his 22nd arrest—following a dramatic chase through Miami [that involved] many police cars and much shooting—John Sala had reached the end of the line. Guilty of the attempted murder of a policeman, aggravated assault, and grand theft, he was headed to jail for a long time.

But jail, of all places, turned out to be his saving grace…

Sent to a prison in Avon Park, Florida, ...

"The Lord is my Shepherd" is written on many more tombstones than lives.

—Dallas Willard, U.S. philosopher and writer (1935—)

According to a 2007 study conducted by LifeWay Research and reported by USA Today, 70 percent of young adults drop out of Protestant churches, and 34 percent do not attend even sporadically after age 30.

The young adults polled cited the following reasons for leaving church (those polled could offer more than one reason):

• Wanted a break from church: 27 percent

• Found church members judgmental ...