Getting Away from Godhood

I once picked up a 5-year-old at vacation Bible school in the Kool-Aid and cookie queue. I took a bite from his cookie. He looked very comfortable as ...

A Guard Against Pride

It is good that we at times endure opposition, and that we are evilly and untruly judged, when our actions and intentions are good. Often such experiences ...

The Other Spurgeon

One day I was jogging in the forest near my house when a question popped into my mind: What about John Spurgeon?

I admit, not many people are losing sleep ...

Of Specks and Beams

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect but we will not amend our own fault.

Shared Fear Makes Friends

Tell people what you're afraid of, and you make them your allies.

Universal Obedience

If God be God over us, we must yield him universal obedience in all things. He must not be over us in one thing, and under us in another, but he must ...

A Humble Prayer

Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of thee; thou only knowest what I need. ... I open my heart to thee. Behold my needs which I know not myself. Smite, ...

Recognizing the Hand of God

Bill McCartney was the head coach of the University of Colorado, and you avid football fans would know that the McCartney family has been through a great ...

Incarnation's Awful Price

I would not choose the slums of Calcutta, India, for my vacation. There were extraordinary people who worked among the deformity and decay of leper colonies ...

Jesus' "About Face!"

Quite unlike Hitler or the Stones or Hefner--who also changed the world, simply by intuiting which way the parade was heading and getting in front of ...