Table of Contents Spiritual discipline derives from a series of activities which are found in the Bible and which were adopted by the early Christians, particularly monastic orders, as a means of promoting spiritual growth....

When we talk about self-control, we mean a number of things. Perhaps the type of self-control that springs most readily to mind is impulsive behavior: the giving in to immediate gratification, such as, the fattening...

Table of Contents Let us consider the miracle of prayer, a practice that surely dates back beyond recorded history, for a yearning to pray is as natural as breathing. Anyone who reads their Bible can...

Table of Contents How do you feel about routines? Perhaps you feel rather negative when you hear the word; maybe you feel that it suggests something which is dull, repetitive, mundane. Spontaneity sounds much more...

Table of Contents Do you ever feel that life just keeps on getting more and more complicated? When I look back at my grandparents’ time, I realize that in lots of ways their life was...

Table of Contents For thousands of years, writing has been the means by which human beings, all around the world, have recorded what is important to them, but it is not the only way of...

Table of Contents People who aren’t Christians say that they don’t believe in prayer, they want scientific proof that it works. Christians know better, they know that faith works, not because some scientist told them...

Do you feel that you’ve had a lot of bad luck in your life, that other people have had it so much easier, that life just isn’t fair? Well stop right there, because if you...

Do you find that there simply aren’t enough hours in the day? If you’ve got a family, especially young ones, it feels like you’re incessantly forgetting this, late for that, and it’s not as if...