Why Women Are Turning to Antidepressants

A 2011 USA Today article reported that the "use of antidepressants has soared nearly 400 percent since 1988, making the medication the most frequently ...

Film Tree of Life Portrays Prayers of Deep Longing

Tree of Life is a film about a 1950s Texas family and their relationships, growing pains, and common life struggles. The oldest of the three boys, Jack, ...

Chuck Swindoll on the Power of the Holy Spirit

By the time I graduated from [seminary], I had many convictions and few questions, especially regarding the Holy Spirit …. But during a lifetime ...

Community Outreach Moves a Neighbor to Consider Christ

During a Saturday afternoon community service day, I was walking down a narrow side street in the city of Compton, California, heading towards one of ...

Finding True Joy in Christ

Pastor Tim Keller used the following example to show how to find ultimate joy and satisfaction in Christ:

Do you remember when your mother used to say, ...

Image of Christ Is Fulfillment of Our Deepest Hungers

Often people have the idea that the image of Christ is something alien to human beings, something strange that God wants to add on to our life, something ...

Denying Our Hunger Means Missing the Blessing

Spiritual hunger is a precondition to God's blessing. The problem is, we are in denial about our condition—or we are taught to be in denial. When ...

Students Search for Meaning

According to Yale University law professor Anthony Kronman, students who begin their college careers today suffer from one glaring omission in their studies. ...

The Hunger Christ Blesses

It is the desire for God which is the most fundamental appetite of all, and it is an appetite we can never eliminate. We may seek to disown it, but it ...

Is Prozac God's Gift?

Concerning the mystery of God's help, John Ortberg writes:

God does come, and he may come in unexpected ways. Lewis Smedes was a teacher of mine in seminary, ...