Preaching that Works

Words without deeds are empty, but deeds without words are dumb. It is stupid to set them against each other. It is, for example, stupid to say: "The ...

The Importance of Concentration

Warren Bennis, in Why Leaders Can't Lead, writes:

The flying Wallendas are perhaps the world's greatest family of aerialists and tightrope walkers. ...

Never Alone

Happy and strong and brave shall we be--able to endure all things, and to do all things--if we believe that every day, every hour, every moment of our ...

Faith and Courage

If there are two words that should be said in the same breath and said regularly to ventilate our hope, that should be flamed together, branded as a signature ...

Fear Leads to the Flatlands

Fear doesn't want you to make the journey to the mountain. If he can rattle you enough, fear will persuade you to take your eyes off the peaks and ...

Reasons to Believe in God

Several years ago a scientist wrote an article entitled, "Seven Reasons Why I Believe in God." He said, "Consider the rotation of the earth. Our globe ...

The Courage of a Child

In A Pretty Good Person, Lewis Smedes writes:

A federal judge had ordered New Orleans to open its public schools to African-American children, and the ...

Faith and Works

Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, ...

Two Sides of the Same Coin

Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.

They Believed They Could Do Something

Nineteenth-century evangelicals, when they saw a problem, believed they could do something about it.