Why Do We Worship?

Worship is not, and never has been, something people attend in order to be entertained or fed. Worship can be entertaining. Worship can be richly nourishing. ...

What We Need Is Soul Food

It is my conviction that a very large part of mankind's ills and of the world's misery is due to the rampant practice of trying to feed the soul with ...

Food for Thought

One day I was trying to feed my 2-month-old daughter, Crystal. She cried loudly and frantically, pausing just to breathe. If she would only be still, ...

Worship: Holes in the Ice

Not long ago, the world watched as three gray whales, icebound off Point Barrow, Alaska, floated battered and bloody, gasping for breath at a hole in ...

Fear of Death

The Pillsbury Dough Boy. Cute. Cuddly. And wanted for attempted murder.

Well, not exactly ...

A woman in Arkansas was sitting in her car in a parking lot ...

Celebrated Frauds

So, your mom's got a Betty Crocker cookbook. So do 55 million others. But did you know Betty never existed? The people at Gold Medal flour invented ...

The Danger of "Lite"

Christians must be careful that the fad for "liteness" does not affect their spirituality.

Freed from Ego

A woman said to a guest at dinner, "We say grace at dinner each day to remind us around here that there is something bigger than our egos." ...

No Donuts?

How in the world did the early church fellowship without coffee and donuts?

Worship Needs to Simmer

Rod Cooper writes:

When I was about 10 years old, I had the privilege of getting up at 4 a.m. to get the cows so we could milk them. As we came in for ...