Claudia Discovers God’s Variety

Claudia’s father came into her room early one Saturday morning.  “Wake up, sweetie,” he said softly, and only after standing by her bed for a few minutes, just watching his daughter sleep peacefully.  “I have a surprise for you.” “Oh daddy, you ruined it.” “I ruined what?”  He looked around the room, puzzled.  “What, what did [...]

12 Depression Busters

So I was reading an article by Lauren Winner about why she loves the Mitford Series novels and came across 12 “depression busters,” which are actually just good pieces of advice for life, depressed or not.  I couldn’t help thinking in the back of my mind what the depression busters would look like on a Christian [...]

Dallas Willard on Living

“How the disciple lives naturally comes out of who the disciple is.” –Dallas Willard This is profound, and here’s why: Matthew 12.34 Whatever is in your heart determines what you say. (NLT) Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. (ESV) Your words show what is in your hearts. (CEV) The mouth speaks [...]

Sophie’s World: The Faculty of Wonder

“The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.” To summarize briefly: A white rabbit is pulled out of a top hat. Because it is an extremely large rabbit, the trick takes many billions of years. All mortals are born at the very tip of the rabbit’s fine hairs, where [...]

Rob Bell: Salvation is Holistic

When we started Mars Hill I would say that my understanding of the gospel that Paul talks about in Colossians, my understanding was that you believe in Jesus and you go to heaven. That’s how it works. “This world is not my home, I’m just passing through.” So my understanding was that the goal, then, [...]

A New Kind of Life

I want to spend a month in the wilderness, with nothing but healthy food to eat, natural spring water from the mountain to drink, my soul, and the person who made all the universes. I have spent 25 – by the time May rolls around, 26 – years of my life mostly existing and letting [...]

Sexually promiscuous, cocaine-snorting, acid-dropping hippie chick becomes Christian by accident

Barbara Curtis (pictured above), a sexually promiscuous fag-hag attended a FamilyLife conference twenty years ago with her second husband and they came home as different people. She says in an article in Christianity Today: We weren’t sure what had happened to us, but we knew something had changed. Isn’t that the way it is sometimes? [...]

Mandy Moore and Me: “Where Do I Fit In This World?”

Mandy said this recently in New York: “I’ve been going through this really crazy time in my life — it’s what I imagine people fresh out of college go through,” she says. “I’m asking myself life-altering questions, like `Who am I? Where do I fit in this world? What am I doing, what do I [...]