Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for. . . . By faith Jacob, when...
When a team wins the Super Bowl, we still feel a need to single out the Most Valuable Player. Our culture emphasizes...
By rep. 11 of a 15-rep. set of exquisite tortures devised by my half-my-age-but-twice-as-buff trainer, I was struggling. He noticed. (He always does.) My arms were beginning to wobble a little, and...
If we look closely inside the routines of our daily lives, we can find hints of God’s grace.
Recently, during a year of research leave from my university, I made a series of journeys—pilgrimages, actually—to Mount Athos, Greece. Known to some as “the Holy Mountain,” this isolated part of...
Years ago a student of mine entered a laboratory to prepare for an academic medical career. In the prior eleven years, she had amassed many skills; now with this further training, her future would...
When Jesus ascended to Heaven to return to His Father, the eleven disciples stood and watched Him rise through the clouds. An angel in the clouds nearby saw Jesus pass by and called...
We were new Christians and our oil exploration company was small, but some of us had decided to meet before work in the conference room to pray for each other and for the...
Christians in the workplace often wonder if what they do has eternal value or significance. Is all work in answer to God’s call? What about when work seems nonproductive or meaningless? ...
In the store that sold sleight-of-hand and magic gizmos, my youngest son held both the Amazing Disappearing Rabbits and the Amazing Disappearing Ink. He faced me with wide brown eyes. “Can’t I...
Since it began 35 years ago, Harvard University's legendary course on Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis...
“Somehow I can’t believe there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true,” Walt Disney once said. “This special secret can be...
The night was dark and I was bone weary. I thought, “I can’t do this.” My husband was ill, and we were leaving the hospital for a 230-mile trip home. Our two children...
I have been a writer for 28 years, and anyone who creates anything knows the road is paved with doubt. Can I write? Am I a fool to think that I can compete...
Out here in western Iowa where I live, on the eastern emerald cusp of the Great Plains, on some balmy early fall days, it's not hard to believe that we are not where...
The biggest geek in the senior class is sitting alone in the bustling high school cafeteria. He stares self-consciously at his plate, pushes his food around, counts the minutes until the period is...
A cold Boston breeze rushed as I drove from the airport to a hospital to be with my eighty-year-old mother. One week earlier her life was a simple routine. Then came a heart...
Each day we imagine what things could be like, and we are often discouraged when they do not match our dreams.
Blaise Pascal wrote something in his book Pensees that has always troubled me: “Men (humans) never delight in doing evil as much as if they can do it for religious reasons.” How chilling. Pascal...
The Four Cs of my Christian Walk begin with Christ. He is the Savior I acknowledge, and all things depend upon that decision. He is the mindset I live in. And in Him...
