Drafted to Be God's Agents

According to the book No Ordinary Time, by Doris Kearns Goodwin, the first peacetime draft occurred October 29, 1940. President Franklin Roosevelt and ...

Man Witnesses amid Terror

Al Braca worked as a corporate bond trader. His office was on the 105th floor of Tower One in the World Trade Center. A week after the tower was hit and ...

Atheist Unable to Meet Christian's Challenge

In the 19th century Charles Bradlaugh, a prominent atheist, challenged a Christian man to debate the validity of the claims of Christianity. The Christian ...

Iranian Christians Multiply After Martyrdoms

In Iran, Mehdi Dibaj, an Assemblies of God minister, spent nearly 10 years in prison for his faith. A convert from Islam in 1955, Dibaj is given every ...

Witnessing Amid Chaos

Timothy Johnson, pastor of Church of the Redeemer in Bowie, Maryland, writes:

Earlier this summer I took a few days to reread the book of Acts and was ...

Mensa Members Miss Easy Solution

Mensa is an organization whose members have an IQ of 140 or higher. A few years ago, there was a Mensa convention in San Francisco, and several members ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Becoming a Slave to Save

During the nineteenth century a group of missionaries in what is now Surinam in South America, wanted to reach the inhabitants of a nearby island with ...