Heaven Can Wait

When my five-year-old granddaughter returned home from a day at Children's Crusade, her brother asked her why she didn't go up to the altar when they ...

Headed to Heaven

As John and Betty Stam, early missionaries to China, were led to certain execution by their communist captors, someone asked, "Where are you going?" ...

Untangled Majesty

Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.

The Promise of Heaven

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

Headed for Heaven or Hell?

Headed for Heaven or Hell? How would Lincoln answer? His political opponent, a famous frontier preacher, wanted to know.

Abraham Lincoln ran for Congress ...

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 ...

Hope of Dancing

I have hope in the future. The Bible speaks about bodies being glorified. I know the meaning of that now. It's the time after my death here when I, the ...

Cheering the Invisible Victory

On a balmy October afternoon in 1982, Badger Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin, was packed. More than 60,000 die-hard University of Wisconsin supporters were ...

Home Before Dark

When I started out as a boy preaching, Father went along. Then when I got old enough to go by myself, he'd meet me at the little railroad station in ...

The Hope of Dying

George Palmer said before he died, "I'm homesick for heaven." It's the hope of dying that has kept me alive this long.