Faith and Its Reward

Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Christians Live by Faith

We live by faith in a prayer-hearing, soul-converting, soul-sanctifying, soul-restoring, soul-comforting God.

—Early Methodist evangelist Francis ...

God Is in Control

Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.

Where Is Your Carpenter God?

When the army of Julian the Apostate was on the march to Persia some of the soldiers got hold of a Christian believer to torment and torture him in brutal ...

Hold the Fort

In Ashtabula, Ohio, in 1876, a train went off the tracks and over the bridge, and many people were killed. One of those who died was Reverend P. P. Bliss, ...

Don't Fear the Light

Four members of a family in Haiti cowered at home during the February 1998 solar eclipse and were found dead the next day by what officials said was accidental ...

A Healing Fool

The Gospels depict Jesus as having spent a surprising amount of time healing people. Although, like the author of Job before him, he specifically rejected ...

God Brings Out Our Best

We are all asked to do more than we can do. Every hero and heroine of the Bible does more than he would have thought it possible to do, from Gideon to ...

Prayer Is Not a "Distraction"

Many "sophisticated" political and social commentators complain that issues like school prayer are "distractions" having nothing to ...

The Highlands of Holiness

When an observatory is about to be built, the site selected is always on some high mountain. The aim is to find a place where there is a clear, unobstructed ...