Death of Friend Helps Philip Yancey See Easter in New Light

Philip Yancey writes in "The Great Reversal”:

After years of urban living had ground down my childhood love of nature, I found it suddenly rekindled ...

Desiring Less Than What God Can Give

In his book The Divine Commodity, Skye Jethani shares a story from a trip he took to India with his father. While walking the streets of New Delhi, a ...

Will Willimon Learns Hard Truth at Funeral

Pastor Will Willimon writes:

Early in my ministry, I served a little church in rural Georgia. One Saturday we went to a funeral in a little country church ...

Experiences of Beauty Serve as Signposts

What is the most beautiful thing you have experienced this week?

Maybe something you heard. Maybe some beautiful music—perhaps in church, or in the ...

Tony Campolo Experiences Powerful Moment at Funeral

Tony Campolo writes:

I went to my first black funeral when I was 16 years old. A friend of mine, Clarence, had died. The pastor was incredible. From the ...

Tollbooth Violations Offer a Lesson About Christ's Return

As we look at Christ's first coming this Christmas season, here's a story from CT editor Kevin Miller to help us keep in mind Christ's Second ...

Ready Every Day

Robby Robins was an Air Force pilot during the first Iraq war. After his 300th mission, he was surprised to be given permission to immediately pull his ...

Buechner on the Coming Day of Judgment

Whenever we speak of the end times, our hearts often quicken—partly out of joy, yet also out of fear. To speak of end times is to speak of somewhat ...

Child Shows Best Way to Prepare for Christ's Return

Wendy Murray Zoba writes in Christianity Today magazine:

If, as Jesus said, we cannot know the hour or the day [of his return], yet we also see the signs, ...

"End of the Spear": Ready for Heaven

The movie The End of the Spear tells the true story of five missionaries who gave their lives to reach the violent Waodoni tribe in the jungles of Ecuador ...