"Chariots of Fire": Living by Principle

The film Chariots of Fire is a true story about two British runners competing in the 1924 Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian, was encouraged by ...

Discerning the Details

The floor of the Princeton gym was being resurfaced, so Princeton basketball standout (and later U.S. Senator) Bill Bradley had to put in several practice ...

Dedicated to Futility

"One of the things that really attracts me about mountaineering is its total pointlessness. So I've dedicated my life to it."

—Tom ...

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 ...

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 ...