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Sehnsucht is a German word that means “deep longing”. It describes a fleeting state experienced by everyone from time to time—a profound yearning as real as it is intangible, a mysterious longing [...]

The Apostle John states in his first letter in the Bible that, on the first Christmas Day, Jesus Christ “appeared” among us. This is an unusual way of speaking about a person’s birth. Imagine a [...]

When I was a boy I used to catch bees in my handkerchief. Naturally, I was afraid to catch them in my bare hand because of their stings. With the cloth spread over my palm, I would creep up on a [...]

My son was only two at the time, and we were walking along a busy street to the post office. As usual, I was holding his hand. We had not gone far before he began to tug his hand loose from mine. [...]

On Father’s Day my children gave me a card that said on the cover, “Happy Father’s Day, Dad. You know this family just wouldn’t be the same without you …” I was touched. I began to feel all [...]

Five poems by Andrew Lansdown Troubled by the conviction that the children they have aborted are consciously suffering in a Buddhist purgatory, many Japanese women turn to the Buddhist deity, [...]

Soon after it became compulsory to wear seat belts in Western Australia, the police began a blitz against drivers who failed to provide adequate safety restraints for their children. At that time [...]

In April this year, at the height of the cherry-blossom-viewing season, my wife, Susan, and I went to Kyoto, Japan. We saw the budding and bursting of the blossoms. We saw the petals scattering [...]

Do you ever think about heaven and how you will be received there? A song titled “This One’s With Me” by a Christian group called Newsong*encourages us to do just that. In the opening line the [...]

Does heaven exist? If it does, what it is like and how can we get there? Even among Christians, there seems to be uncertainty about the answers to these questions. And a general lack of biblical [...]