Today in the Word Devotional

“There is a gap between our love for the gospel and our love for godliness,” writes Kevin DeYoung in, The Hole in our Holiness. “This must change. It’s not pietism, legalism or fundamentalism to take …

It has taken years to repair the rift between pastor Charles Stanley and his son, Andy. They fought, as Andy recalls, like “middle-school girls,” but eventually patched together their relationship wit …

Louis Zamperini, a Japanese prisoner of war, endured torture from his captor, “the Bird.” Zamperini dreamed of killing the Bird, but when he became a Christian after World War II, he forgave him and s …

Patience. In our life’s journey, we find ourselves in so many situations when we need a great deal of it! Patience, as a Greek word, literally means, “an abiding under.” It connotes a heavy weight tha …

In their parenting book, Good and Angry, Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller discuss the place of anger in the home. Ordinarily, we consider anger with suspicion, an emotion we shouldn’t feel and certain …

In Harriet Beecher Stowe’s bestselling antislavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Tom, a middle-aged slave, is eventually sold into the hands of Simon Legree, a man so brutal and cruel that he eventually d …

When Jodie Foster accepted an award at the 2013 Golden Globes, she confessed: “I want to be seen, to be understood deeply, and to be not so very lonely.” Her words echo Jim Carrey, another successful …

In his new book, Going Solo, Eric Klinenberg, professor of sociology at New York University, cites our growing preference for living alone. Currently, there are more single-person households in the Un …

Tim Keller describes the concept of shalom: “God created all things to be in a beautiful and harmonious, interdependent, knitted, webbed relationship to one another. Just as rightly related physical e …

Research shows that fiction may be even more effective than nonfiction at changing our beliefs. As Jonathan Gottschall from The Boston Globe writes, “When we read nonfiction, we read with our shields …

Gretchen Rubin is a happiness expert of sorts. She’s written two recent books on happiness: The Happiness Project and Happier at Home. Some of her advice, however, runs counter to biblical wisdom. “Co …

Folk wisdom suggests that it requires greater effort to frown than it does to smile. Whether or not this is actually true, it has been proven scientifically that those who produce the facial expressio …

One aspect of traditional catechism is memorizing a long series of questions and answers that explore the meaning of scriptural teaching and church doctrines. As an example the Heidelberg Catechism po …

In 1991, a 16-year-old shot and killed a pregnant woman, Nancy Bishop Langert, and her husband. The young man was tried and sentenced to life without parole. Jeanne Bishop, Nancy’s sister, originally …

Despite the boycott that Shane Windmeyer, executive director of Campus Pride, had organized against Chick-Fil-A’s restaurants, its president Dan Cathy reached out to Windmeyer in friendship. Dan Cathy …