Victory with God

Before the winds that blow do cease,

Teach me to dwell within Thy calm;

Before the pain has passed in peace,

Give me, my God, to sing a song.

Let me not lose ...

God's Amazing Grace

Have you ever thought of how a rainbow is a perfect picture of God's grace? Life's storms may buffet us, ripping apart our plans and flooding ...

Christianity and Humanism

During construction of Emerson Hall at Harvard University, president Charles Eliot invited psychologist and philosopher William James to suggest a suitable ...

God in Our Image

In the classic Your God is Too Small, J.B. Phillips says we tend to give God many names which aren't actually his names: managing director, puppeteer, ...

Slogan or Message?

We must be aware of trivializing the gospel, of presenting it in a form that compromises the radicality of its message. If someone is used to seeing or ...

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 ...

Of Poverty and Loss

Far back in my boyhood I remember an old saint telling me that after some services he liked to make his way home alone, by quiet byways, so that the hush ...

The God Who Is There

We can never talk about God behind his back. We cannot speak of God in his absence. ... The God who is being discussed is also there. The attitude people ...

Hard to Neglect God

"I used to write in my daily calendar '7-7:30 a.m.: Prayer.' But many times I passed that up. It was one more thing to pass by that day. ...

Bridging the Gulf

The gulf that separates the Creator and the creature, the gulf between the being we call God and all other beings, is a great and vast and yawning gulf. ...