Harried Homemaker Finds Life Overwhelming

Two ministerial students from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, were doing summer evangelistic work in a rural area near Montgomery. One hot ...

Christians Struggle with Opposing Desires

We want to be a saint, but we also want to feel every sensation experienced by sinners; we want to be innocent and pure, but we also want to be experienced ...

Elderly Woman Refuses to Take Shortcuts

While a college student, Heidi Neumark took a year off from prestigious Brown University to be part of a volunteer program sponsored by a group called ...

Busy Pastor Learns Hurry Destroys Souls

Pastor and author John Ortberg writes:

Not long after moving to Chicago, I called a wise friend to ask for some spiritual direction. I described the pace ...

Father's Busyness Left Lifetime Scars

James Dobson tells this story:

Several months ago, I talked to a man who described one of the most painful experiences of his life. When he was 17-years-old, ...

Margins Prevent Total Loss

In 2005, a team in the Netherlands worked with meticulously to break the world record for falling dominoes. To accomplish the feat, they needed to set ...

Listen for the Whisperings of God

There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to us well-nigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds of the world die out in the soul, ...

Thrown Brick Gets Executive's Attention

As Josh was sailing down a Chicago neighborhood street in his two-month-old, 12-cylinder Jaguar XKE, a brick sailed through the air and struck its shiny, ...

Students Ignored Needy to Preach Good Samaritan Sermon

In research done by Darley and Batson at Princeton in 1973, a group of theology students was told that they were to go across campus to deliver a sermon ...

Fast Life Demands a Secure Center

Jim Cote writes in Man of Influence:

When I was seven or eight, we lived next to a boarded-up school. We took turns rotating the merry-go-round in the ...