Useful Pain

We are called to be not the honey of the world but the salt of the earth. Salt stings on an open wound, but it also saves one from gangrene.

Your True Calling

If you're honest, you know your calling--to serve God--before the lights are turned on and after they've burned out.

Called to Unceasing Prayer

As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer.

Called to Love

Our calling and purpose as followers of Christ is to love God completely, to love self correctly, and to love others compassionately.

Other-Worldly Witness

Evangelicals who have a one-dimensional view of the mission of the church are criticized roundly by non-evangelicals and by those evangelicals who declare ...

The Calling to Speak

Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. ...

A Whale and a Cactus

A whale is as unique as a cactus. But don't ask a whale to survive Death Valley. We all have special gifts. Where we use them and how determines whether ...

"Willing" Means "Able"

Ira D. Sankey was helping with his father's business and working as a local revenue collector, married and with one child, when Moody's path crossed ...

Motivation for Missions

One of the first western missionaries, Leonard Dober (1706-1766), gave this as his motivation for missions:

Since it is desired of me to make known my ...

Easy Work Is an Insult

It's wrong to offer people easy work. Few things in life are more insulting than to be offered an easy job.