Whenever something bad happened in Hank's life he'd start worrying about what was going to happen to himself in the future. He would put the worst spin possible on what…

Josh was in his mid twenties and in graduate school. He was at a pub with a friend of his. It was exam week and he and Joe were just…

Pete was worried about something lately. It kept him up at night, and made him distracted during the day. When people would talk to him, he could feel his mind…

In the early days of the church, there were many concerns over various types of heresies. And people would be willing to go to prison, or suffer worse, rather than…

We don't necessarily pay attention to our breathing, do we? But now that I have mentioned it, you probably are noticing your breathing right now. Jesus used the idea of…

A few years ago the Vietnamese Cardinal Joseph Xavier van Thuan died in Rome, exiled from his homeland. Everyone who knew him during the last year of his life was…

Scott, a junior in high school, is sitting in his room feeling sorry for himself. He is mad at his parents. He had wanted to borrow the car to go…

In his book A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23, Phillip Keller gives the following example: When he started as a shepherd in the Rocky Mountains, he was unaware of the…

How many of you have been ridiculed for practicing your Catholic faith? Perhaps comments were made when you were at a cocktail party or some other social gathering. Maybe the…

Catherine was really mad at God. She had to admit it. Her husband just found out that his cancer had come back---for the third time, and he would have to…

Angela had a hard time falling asleep. Eventually she did, but then woke up before the alarm went off. She tried to get back to sleep, but she just couldn’t.…

The story of the woman caught in adultery is a powerful one. In Mel Gibson’s film, The Passion of the Christ, his depiction of this scene really illustrates the power…