Running Behind Dad

In 1976 Finland’s Lasse Viren immortalized himself in Olympic history by becoming the first male to win both the 5,000-meter and the 10,000-meter ...

Sign of the Christian

As a result of poor planning, Dennis, from Katy, Texas, needed some same-day dry cleaning before he left on a trip. He remembered one store with a huge ...

Model That!

In ESPN Magazine, Mark Pope of the NBA's Indiana Pacers had this to say about former Boston Celtics player and current Pacers coach Larry Bird: "I ...

Prayer Unceasing

One black woman, looking back at her childhood, remembered the spiritual example of her mother, a slave whose work schedule left little free room, but ...

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 ...

Kindness Evangelism

John Trent, co-author of The Hidden Value of a Man, writes:

When I led a Young Life group, I did my best to round up kids who really needed to hear the ...

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 ...

What a Christian Looks Like

When I led a Young Life group, I did my best to round up kids who really needed to hear the gospel when we went to summer camp. Mark was one of those ...

Holy Spirit Orchestrates

God's Holy Spirit orchestrates our lives to touch others--strangers, friends, work-related people, service-industry workers and more--if we would ...

The Test of a Preacher

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."