Ever stopped to think about where your thoughts are taking you? If you're not controlling them, they're controlling you.

Pauline said she stopped calling herself a Christian in her 30s. Diana said she "lost her faith" as a process of gradual disengagement.

Did you ever play the schoolyard game of tag as a kid? There was always a homebase you could run to, where you'd be safe and no one could get you!

Who knows how long the people watched the sycamore tree. But when Albert Brandt stopped to camp under it in the 1940s, the day they longed for had come.

It's one thing to declare that your past doesn't define you. But it's another thing to live like you really believe it.

Megan sat in the circle of women with her head in her hands. "What I've done is so bad that I can't ever forgive myself," she cried. She was miserable and felt she deserved to live this way.

He was the logical choice to lead. Raised in the home of the ruler of the land, educated with the elites, powerful in both speech and action. But God said, "not so fast."

"You're very religious," my friend commented. "Would you call yourself a Christian?" "Well... yes," I answered. "But what do you think a Christian is," I asked in return.

It starts with disappointment. You prayed as a kid, for a sick pet to get well and...it didn't. When the circumstances God allows aren't what we've wanted, we hedge our bets the next time.

Are you ever fearful of not having enough money? The solution is counter-intuitive: give more away!