True Meaning of Repentance

In Mission in Christ's Way Lesslie Newbigin (d. 1996), long-time missionary to India, writes about the true meaning of repentance:

I remember once ...

Love's Motive

Whenever people expend themselves, they want results. If they lay down life, they want someone's life raised up. If they empty themselves, they want ...

Silencing the Foolish

Oh brethren, what abundance of good works are before us, and how few of them do we undertake to do. I know the world expects more of us than we do ourselves, ...

We Are Already Set Free

I knew an old Glasgow professor named MacDonald who, along with a Scottish chaplain, had bailed out of an airplane behind German lines. They were put ...

We Already Know the Final Score

Lyle Arakaki shares this insight: In Hawaii, because of the time difference with the continental U.S., the NFL Monday Night Football game is played in ...

Partnership with God

Our whole life is to be poised on a certain glad expectancy of God; taking each moment, incident, choice and opportunity as material placed in our hand ...

The Bank of Heaven

The bank of heaven is a sure bank. I have drawn thousands of bills upon it, and never had one sent back protested.

The Promise of Heaven

Only one person in the Bible receives a direct promise of heaven--a thief.

Playing the Endgame

The church speaks the language of the End, so that we will know just how high the stakes are in the present.

Thank You for Tomorrow

He was just a little fellow. His mother died when he was just a child. His father, in trying to be both mommy and daddy, had planned a picnic. The little ...