Missionary Dating to the Extreme

Journalist Terry Mattingly writes:

Church people have a name for what happens when young believers get romantically involved with unbelievers. They call ...

Evangelism Is Like an Usher's Obligation to Rescue Others

The story goes that a young man applied for a job as an usher at a theater in the mall. The manager asked him, "What would you do in case a fire ...

At World Trade Center, Father Seeks Lost Son

In "American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center," William Langewiesche writes about the cleanup of the World Trade Center disaster. In ...

Woman Tells Man He's Going to Hell

A drunken man got on the bus late one night, staggered up the aisle, and sat next to a woman who was clutching a Bible.

She looked the wayward drunk up ...

High Stakes of Following Christ

Calvin Miller writes:

I think the most vibrant missionaries I have met are medical doctors serving in lonely outposts of the Arab world. These physicians ...

Evangelizing in the Worst Circumstances

Dawson Trotman writes:

In 1948 in Europe I met for three days with a group of 25 German fellows. I talked to them every evening for three hours, laying ...

Discipleship Includes Evangelism

Years ago when I was with the Billy Graham team in a crusade, a businessman came forward one night and received Christ as his Savior. The next Sunday ...

Why to Seek the Lost

On July 4, 1854, Charlie Peace, a well-known criminal in London, was hung. The Anglican Church, which had a ceremony for everything, even had a ceremony ...

Serving God Amid Danger

Timothy Keller, pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, New York, writes:

After September 11, I re-read Augustine's The City of God. Rome ...

School: The No-God Zone?

Fifteen-year-old Gilberto Dixon, a 10th grader at Beach Channel High School in Queens, New York, commenting on a city school board decision to forbid ...