Eight-Year-Old Doesn't Need to Ponder the Meaning of Life

Our eight-year-old son was lounging and reading on the couch one morning when he discovered a new word. "What does ponder mean?" Not sure when I last ...

Pew Forum Study Finds Evidence of Religious Confusion and Syncretism

In August 2009, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life conducted a survey to "explore the complexity of faith in the modern world and the overlap between ...

God's Love Is the Only Love Where the Honeymoon Period Never Ends

In his book The Pleasures of God, John Piper shares why God's love is superior to any love we will find here on earth:

Sometimes we joke and say about ...

Interesting Changes in Way Americans View God

Americans who described God as "Friend" in 1984: 29 percent

Americans who did so in 2008: 18 percent

Americans who described God as "King" in 1984: 18 percent

God at Eye Level

In an article for Christian Standard magazine entitled "Carols for Any Season of Suffering," Matt Proctor reflects on the Incarnation:

My 5-year-old, Carl, ...

D-Day and Christmas Day

In his book The Faith, Chuck Colson has a chapter entitled "The Invasion." In it he describes the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944. D-Day was ...

Christmas and Communion

During China's Cultural Revolution, Christians were often sentenced to hard labor in prison camps. Maintaining their faith was hard, and expressing it ...

A Father's Risk and a Mother's Love

In a short devotional for Christian Standard magazine, Paul Williams writes about an unusually bumpy flight he once had from Philadelphia to Long Island. ...

Philip Yancey on How Christmas Day Felt to God

How did Christmas day feel to God? Imagine for a moment becoming a baby again: giving up language and muscle coordination, and the ability to eat solid ...

Philip Yancey on the Courageous Work of God

In 1993, [Philip Yancey] read a news report about a "Messiah sighting" in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York. In an article for Christianity ...