Joy Hard Won

In Decision, Joni Eareckson Tada writes:

Honesty is always the best policy, but especially when you're surrounded by a crowd of women in a restroom ...

Fuel of Happiness

British theologian C.S. Lewis described happiness 50 years ago in terms that make even more sense today in our commuter-driven society:

A car is made to ...

Gospel's Holy Calling

Some years ago we had a lot of denominational leaders visiting the campus where I teach. In one meeting with the faculty, we went around the room and ...

Seeing the Unseen

Every animal on earth has a set of correspondences with the environment around it, and some of those correspondences far exceed ours. Humans can perceive ...

Meeting God in Silence

Somewhere on the dusty shelf of books I read to my children when they were young is a little volume called A Hole Is to Dig. Each charmingly illustrated ...

Fox Mulder on God's Distance

In an episode of "The X-Files," agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are discussing a prison chaplain who claims that God speaks directly to him. ...

Pascal's Vision

"Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was one of the leading scientists and mathematicians of his age," writes scholar J. M. Cohen in his introduction ...

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? ...

God's Great Creation

God's creation is amazingly diverse and is completely overwhelming to man. Why? Only a tiny fraction of all the species on earth (animals, plants, ...

Zig Ziglar Finds God's Comfort

Zig Ziglar writes:

The longest 24 hours of my life were those after my daughter's death. When making the funeral arrangements with her husband and ...