Focus Life's Energy

"No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."

Earth Created to Sustain Life

Dr. Seth Shostak, an astronomer with the SETI Institute, points out in his course "The Search for Intelligent Life in Space" what conditions ...

Hopeful Picture of Death

Cathy Hainer was a USA Today reporter who wrote about her battle against cancer. A short time before she died, she wrote:

I have moments when the fear ...

Worth Comes from God

Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.

Keep Moving

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes ...

Flying Into the Sun

I was sitting next to a little old lady on a flight to Europe. She was very nervous. I said, "Is this your first flight?"

She said, "No, ...

Burning the Past

Years ago a thunderstorm came through southern Kentucky at the farm where my Claypool forebears have lived for six generations. In the orchard, the wind ...

How to Be a Survivor

You've seen a bumper sticker that says, "I'm a Pearl Harbor survivor." The unique thing about this bumper sticker was I saw it on the back of a Toyota ...

Truth Without Life Is Not Truth

There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its biblical sense, ...

Reasons to Worship God

Let me recite some lines from some ancient prayers from the black church. We have some people in every tradition who pray pretty much the same prayer ...