Unhappy Christians Hurt Witness

I once asked a deeply religious man if he considered himself a truly pious person. He responded that while he aspired to be one, he felt that he fell ...

Loving Example Brings Conversion

I once invited a friend, Gavin, to help my pastor and me guide 30 lively teens through an all-night "lock-in" at church. Early in the evening ...

Love's Disarming Power

On April 6, 2000, Ricky and Toni Sexton were taken hostage inside their Wytheville, Virginia, home by a fugitive couple on a crime spree. Toni had taken ...

Keeping Consistent Testimony

Ben Patterson writes in Leadership:

Sam Shoemaker told of a near-sighted professor who was an expert in entomology. His office walls were covered with ...

Ministry at Work

Jack Martens is a minister in San Francisco who marches to the beat of a different drummer. He is not ordained and doesn't preach from a pulpit, but ...

Mets' John Olerud Pursues Good Testimony

[When I first became a Christian,] I thought I had to get my life all perfect, and then I could share my Christianity. It never occurred to me God sees ...

Bad Testimonies

A few years ago I had a chance to become a hero, but it turned out to be an embarrassing moment. I was in China on a tour group. Our tour bus was on the ...

A Trip to the Bathroom

While serving with Operation Mobilization in India in 1967, tuberculosis forced me into a sanitarium for several months. I did not yet speak the language, ...

Invitation to a Banquet

Evangelism is witness. It is one beggar telling another beggar where to get food. The Christian does not offer out of his bounty. He has no bounty. He ...

A Shining Light

I am the light of the world, the founder of the Christian religion said. What a stupendous phrase! And how particularly marvelous today, when one is conscious ...