This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. Intimacy is a feeling. Though we can’t base our assurance of salvation on emotions, feeling close to God is important. Our ...

How balanced are our lives? We all have many areas of life that we partake in: family, school, business, relaxation, sports and church, but how balanced are we? I would invite you to take out your ...

Riley Creer, a graduate student at Penn State University, has learned the importance of making time for God despite a busy school and family life. Although the world values instant gratification, ...

Evan Dantzscher has found that taking time out of his busy schedule to prayer to God makes all the difference when he's dealing with trials or even day-to-day life. (Sydnee Gonzalez) LIBERTY, MO. — ...

If you’re a busy mom trying to keep up with the constant demands and frenetic schedules of modern family life, chances are your personal prayer life sounds like a series of desperate shouts in the ...

Anyone who has gone through spiritual direction or attended a religious retreat will quickly feel at home reading Busy Lives & Restless Souls. This is fitting; the book's author, Becky Eldredge, has ...

Self-discovery includes learning, sometimes painfully, who we are not. As Christians, we define our humanity by distinguishing ourselves from God and other spiritual creatures. God is not limited by ...

God is in the in-between. Spirit lives within us and around us. Spirit connects us with all of life both animate and inanimate. To communicate with God, we need to stay present and open to the wisdom ...

It’s Groundhog Day. Do you know where (and when) your 2009 retreat is? Tom Mooney does. Every year since 1970, the Minneapolis lawyer has faithfully fulfilled his plan to get away once a year to pray ...

It's been posited that God speaks to us through circumstances: blocked pathways, dreams, feelings, inspirations, music, nature, symbols, tender mercies, thoughts and visions. Some say he communicates ...