"Shrek 2": Dysfunctional Family Feast

Shrek 2 continues the story of an Ogre named Shrek who married the princess Fiona. The princess takes her new husband to the kingdom of Far Far Away to ...

Complaining Americans Ignore Their Blessings

Journalist James Glassman declares that "a culture of complaint" has infected American society. The grievances of Americans are many, but include a protest ...

Prayer Deters Gossip

We never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray!

—Evangelist Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994)

Stumbling-Block or Stepping-Stone?

Text: "Let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother's way" (Romans ...

Be Patient with Me, I'm Happening

George Sanchez writes in Discipleship Journal:

I was visiting my daughter's home when my grandson grabbed my hand to take me to see something. My daughter ...

Hold Your Judgment

A grocery store check-out clerk once wrote to advice-columnist Ann Landers to complain that she had seen people buy "luxury" food items—like ...

A Father Who Won't Affirm

In We Are Still Married, Garrison Keillor writes:

The town ball club was the Lake Wobegon Schroeders, so named because the starting nine were brothers, ...

Prisoners of Ourselves

It is not that someone else is preventing you from living happily; you yourself do not know what you want. Rather than admit this, you prefer that someone ...

Easy Criticism

The business of finding fault is very easy, and that of doing better very difficult.

Of Specks and Beams

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect but we will not amend our own fault.