Saved by an Unknown Layman

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, in the minds of some of us, was the greatest preacher since the apostle Paul. When he was 22 years of age, he preached sermons ...

When Small Things Are Big

The day of small things can become the life of biggest and best things. A small word spoken at the right time may set a whole life straight. A gentle ...

Capturing the Real Criminal

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be; till he's realized exactly how much right he has to all this snobbery, and ...

Denial Lives On

My denial of my sin protects, preserves, perpetuates that sin! Ugliness in me, while I live in illusions, can only grow the uglier.

Character by Firelight

The supreme test of goodness is not in the greater but in the smaller incidents of our character and practice; not what we are when standing in the searchlight ...

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 ...

Imitating the Real Thing

It should always be noted that the more excellent something is the more likely it will be imitated. There are many false diamonds and rubies, but who ...

You Look Perfect

One day I had a speaking engagement in Florida and I shared a table with three elegant young women. I felt fat, forty, and somewhat futile.

Suddenly and ...

Vanity

A young woman went to her pastor and said, "Pastor, I have a besetting sin, and I want your help. I come to church on Sunday and can't help thinking ...

God's Harvest

There is an old legend that comes from a small town in Germany that for a number of years experienced very poor harvests. Finally those townspeople went ...