"No, no, no," she said. "You don't understand. Not that kind of longing. It was when I was happiest that I longed most. It was on happy days when we were up there on the hills, the three of us, with the wind and the suns...

Saturday I roamed an antique store and found a cache of older Christian books. There were so many that caught my eye. In the end, I bought only one. Letters To Young Churches is, as the cover says, a translation of the N...

   I listened to my new Sia cd today. The Color the Small One album. I like it a lot. It was made for listening to in your car with the windows down while drinking Starbucks and wearing oversized animal print s...

Today started off well. My patient was immediately put in a most ignorantly dismal of moods, mostly because he thought today was destined to be cursed from the start. You see, he has had annoying events happen in the pas...

 Wow! I just finished reading the entire Chronicles of Narnia. C.S. Lewis was perhaps one of the cleverest story tellers there ever will be. I am a great fan of J.R.R. Tolkien and his Lord of the Rings, but the worl...

PerspectiveMr Brett and I just spent the past week in Burlington, Vermont, to be with my family. My sister found the place online, on a website called "Executive Rental Vermont". The place was advertized as having air co...

"I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been —if you've been up all night and cried til you have no more tears left in you—you will know that t...

"Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.If you want to make sure of keeping it intactyou must give it to no one,not even an animal.Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries;avoid...

From my Reviews Blog:Recently, JI Packer was asked what he considered was the top 5 books that a father should put in his kids library. Packer answered with these top 5 books:J.C. Ryle, Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, ...

     This morning I was interviewing one of our pastors who is also the principal of the school my church runs. (It would take a longer time than I have right now to explain why I was interv...