In Experience God in Worship George Barna observes the contemporary Christian's view of worship: "Most adults will contend that a Christian has a responsibility to worship God. However, when asked to ...
Years ago in a small Tennessee city there lived a man who did not believe in banks. Word got around, and one day he was robbed. The culprit was caught and put on trial. The defense attorney tried to p...
A. D. Correll is the CEO of Georgia-Pacific, the leading forest-products company in the country. Recently Sky magazine quoted Correll on the value of trees. He said that a growing tree is "the most wo...
Josh McDowell explains that, “An executive recruiter, a ‘head-hunter’ who goes out and hires corporation executives for other firms, once told me, ‘When I get an executive that I'm trying to hire for ...
In her book, Sticking Up for What I Believe, Gwendolyn Mitchell Diaz answers questions that teenagers ask about God and life. Question #7 is "Isn't living a good life good enough?" Many people falsel...
In Experience God in Worship George Barna observes the contemporary Christian's view of worship: "Most adults will contend that a Christian has a responsibility to worship God. However, when asked to ...
Safely Home Eric Barker, a missionary from Great Britain spent over 50 years in Portugal preaching the Gospel, often under adverse conditions. During World War II, the situation became so critical tha...
Feel the Darkness Some years ago my family visited a cave in the state of Kentucky. The guide led us through many beautiful and winding subterranean passageways. Suddenly he turned off all the lights ...
On August 16, 1987, Northwest Airlines flight 225 crashed just after taking off from the Detroit airport, killing 155 people, One survived: a four-year-old from Tempe, Arizona, named Cecelia. News acc...
David Jeremiah points out that, "In a Sports Illustrated interview, baseball hero Mickey Mantle once described his long battle with alcohol and his heartbreaking problems with his family. The intervie...
Did you know that the type most newspapers use for astounding events is called "second coming" type? These are large, heavy, black letters reserved for only the most stupendous, amazing, front page ne...
An evangelist told the following story in one of his campaigns. He said, "I have a friend who during the depression lost a job, a fortune, a wife, and a home, but tenaciously held to his faith...
Prior to the revelations concerning Teg Haggard, Ray Pritchard received an email from a woman distraught about repeated pastoral problems in her local church. Her words speak for multitudes who have b...
As the elderly man lay dying in his bed, death's agony was suddenly pushed aside as he smelled the aroma of his favorite homemade chocolate chip cookies wafting up the stairs....
In northern Europe, a walk through a winter's forest is a bleak affair—white, stark, cold, lifeless except for occasional boughs of green holly bearing bright red berries. In Medieval times, these bou...
One day the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo happened to overhear a group of people admiring his Pietà, a statue of Christ on His mother's knees after His death on the cross. One man attr...
When Queen Elizabeth was crowned they brought to her a sceptre. On the top of it was the star of Africa, the largest diamond in the world. Before that they brought to her a staff. On the top of tha...
A wonderful little piece has been making the rounds on the Internet. Perhaps you have seen it. It is a list of things God will not ask you on the day you meet him: 1. God won't ask what kind of c...
Dear Ann Landers: The letter from the woman married to the tightwad - she couldn't get an extra quarter out of him - reminded me of my wonderful aunt who was beautifully warmhearted and had a great se...
Jared C. Wilson
The creed, attributed to the earliest missionary followers of Jesus, distills the basic outline of what it means to be a Christian into a short summation that belies the depth and richness of what it ...