Two Types of Ambition

To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of ...

Unimaginable Good

[God] is up to something so big, so unimaginably good that your mind cannot contain it. ... What we see God doing is never as good as what we don't ...

Success Is Doing God's Will

Doing God's will--faithfully, zealously, despite the absence of tangible rewards--is a worthy goal and a colossal success in itself.

Make Heroes of Outreach Ministers

To have an outreach church, you have to make heroes of people who minister outside the church's programs.

Discipleship Means Joy

If we answer the call to discipleship, where will it lead us? What decisions and partings will it demand? To answer this question we shall have to go ...

God's Fairness

The parable of the vineyard workers (Matthew 20) offends our sense of fairness. Why should everyone get equal pay for unequal work?

Back in Ontario when ...

A Lesson on Death and Taxes

Gary Thomas writes in Christianity Today: Thinking about eternity helps us retrieve [perspective]. I'm reminded of this every year when I figure my ...

Sacrificial Living's Payoff

God's wisdom is not first counsel on how to practice family values or to use common sense. It is the wisdom of His plan of grace, the wisdom of the ...

In Search of a Better Place

I read about two teenagers in Chicago who wanted to prove their love for each other. They went to the top of a six story building, kissed each other, ...

Children: God's Rewards

As a single parent with a full-time job and three young children, I often listen to Christian radio as an extra source of strength to cope with my day-to-day ...