The Most Profound Thought

Karl Barth was invited to deliver one of the distinguished lectureships at a theological seminary in the East, and while he was there a group of ministers ...

Bacon and Egg Sandwiches

My mother and I did not "mix." I chose a typical teenage solution to the problem--silence.

I would leave for school in the morning, come home ...

God Wants Us

God wants us to worship Him. He doesn't need us, for He couldn't be a self-sufficient God and need anything or anybody, but He wants us. When ...

The Point of Asking

Think of the last thing you prayed about--were you devoted to your desire or to God? Determined to get some gift of the Spirit or to get at God? "Your ...

Our First Love

We are intimately loved long before our parents, teachers, spouses, children and friends loved or wounded us. That's the truth of our lives. That's ...

Prayer Changes Us

It is not that prayer changes God, or awakens in him purposes of love and compassion that he has not already felt. No, it changes us, and therein lies ...

How to Love Truly

My son-in-law, Alan Jones, told me a story of a Hassidic rabbi, renowned for his piety. He was unexpectedly confronted one day by one of his devoted youthful ...

The God-Absorbed Life

We are called to an everlasting preoccupation with God.

Keep Eating Together

Don't abandon the daily habits that keep you close, like eating together.

What the World's Waiting For

The world isn't waiting for advice about how to solve its problems. It's waiting for somebody to listen to it and love it.