Giving It All to God

I was with Billy Graham in the second crusade he ever conducted in Augusta, Georgia; he was just a young fellow. And he has said to me, "I never ...

Keep Making a Little Progress

Follow with me a 90-year-old man bent with the weight of his years; slow of step, with stooped and rounded shoulders. It is early morning, and he's ...

Ministers Are a Flame of Fire

God makes his ministers a flame of fire.

Am I ignitable?

God, deliver me from the dread asbestos of "other things."

Saturate me with the oil of ...

Labor Without Ceasing

Do not allow your eyes to sleep or your eyelids to slumber until the hour of your death, but labor without ceasing that you may enjoy life without end. ...

Faith Overcomes Our Limitations

Many years ago in the city of Minneapolis at Bethlehem Baptist Church they needed a Sunday school teacher for the junior boys. This class wasn't bad, ...

Who Do You Serve?

While traveling in Ghana, I learned that in the dominant language of Ghana the only way to ask the question, "What is your religion?" is to ...

Beyond Me-ism

We are designed with a great capacity for God; and sin and our individuality are the things that keep us from getting at God. God delivers us from sin: ...

"Outdated" Convictions

Old movies offer some powerful lessons--lessons that our generation could easily miss. "Prisoner of Zenda," for example, a movie released in ...

Removing Hindrances

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another ...

The Joy of Discipleship

I find that discipleship means, first, truly living. It does not mean a joy ride to heaven; it does not mean that there are no trials and no burdens. ...