Sam Walton was partial to Moon Pies. This morning's Wall Street Journal reports that he did something about his snack preference--he made them his personal VPI. In Wal-Mart Speak, that means Value Producing Item...We all have our VPIs...God has his personal VPIs as well. If your computer screen were a mirror, you'd be looking at one right now.

The role of women in national leadership has changed dramatically in my lifetime...Such equality of significance is nothing new to the Christian worldview.

Our Father knows every sin we've ever committed and every sin we have yet to commit. And yet he doesn't conclude that we are what we are. He is employing every resource in the universe to help us grow to be like Jesus (Romans 8:29).

You are the reason for the season. You are the purpose behind Christmas. Your salvation was the goal of his birth, death, and resurrection. If you were the only person ever to have sinned, Christmas would have come just the same.

Your Maker...thinks about you more often than the number of grains of sand in the world (Psalm 139:17-18). (One mathematician calculates that number as 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.) He's thinking about you this very moment.

The good news is that we don't have to be smart or rich to be significant. In fact, there is little historical connection between education or wealth and value to humanity...In the eyes of the authorities, Jesus of Nazareth was nothing more than an itinerant Galilean carpenter and peasant.