Oil Platform Designed to Survive the Worst

The Hibernia oil platform in the North Atlantic is 189 miles (315 kilometers) east-southeast of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. The total structure, ...

"City Slickers": Getting Older

City Slickers recounts the adventures of three friends having mid-life crises. They escape the city and head west for a two-week cattle run to discover ...

Burial Leads to New Life

Object Lesson:

Display pots of soil, a watering can, and a seed packet.

I am going to plant seeds in these pots. Over the next few weeks as we see them ...

Google Founders Dreamed Big

Pick a number, any number. Did you pick a number larger than a million? If you didn't, why didn't you?

In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated ...

Keeping Promises

Writer and speaker Lewis Smedes says:

Yes, somewhere people still make and keep promises. They choose not to quit when the going gets rough because they ...

Really Bad Predictions

In a recent article in The Futurist magazine, writer Laura Lee catalogues some of the worst predictions of all time:

"Inventions have long since reached ...

Eternal Life: The Next Great Chapter

On the final page of the final book of The Chronicles of Narnia, some of the children who have been to Narnia lament that they once again must return ...

Futility of Predicting Christ’s Return

The story goes that on New Year's Eve 999 a crowd pushed its way into St. Peter's Basilica in Rome to pray at a midnight mass led by Pope Sylvester ...

Untangled Majesty

Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.

Our Real Enemies

The real enemies of our life are the "oughts" and the "ifs." They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the ...