Seeds of the Spirit

In the book The Ascent of a Leader, Bruce McNicol and Bill Thrall tell of a woman who has a dream where she wanders into a shop at the mall and finds ...

What Provokes Change

Danny Cox, a former jet pilot turned business leader, tells his readers in Seize the Day that when jet fighters were first invented, they "flew much ...

Don't Waste the Pain

Author and speaker Jill Briscoe writes:

I was grateful and excited. My daughter, Judy, agreed to accompany me to Australia where I was to speak at a conference. ...

Life's Mountains and Valleys

Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.

Mets' John Olerud Pursues Good Testimony

[When I first became a Christian,] I thought I had to get my life all perfect, and then I could share my Christianity. It never occurred to me God sees ...

Love Leads to Painful Places

If you allow someone to love you, that love will take you to painful places.

Dormant Marriages

Every marriage seems to have its periods of "death" as well as "resurrection." C.S. Lewis felt this way and attributed so much divorce ...

Holiness Can't Be Hurried

Some years ago we often sang a hymn, "Take Time to Be Holy." I wish we sang it more in these days. It takes time to be holy; one cannot be holy ...

The Ages of Ministry

When I turned 30 I wanted to build a large church. At 40 I wanted to learn how to preach. But at 50 I want to know God deeply.

Real Consistency

The only way to be "truly" consistent is as a non-Christian. If we are to be Christians at all, we will be inconsistent ones. We will be right ...