Henri Nouwen Defines Christmas

Songs, good feelings, beautiful liturgies, nice presents, big dinners, and sweet words do not make Christmas. Christmas is saying yes to something beyond ...

Heavenly Reward

As a deaf child, former NFL star Kenny Walker felt like an outsider. As Kenny matured, however, he compensated for his deafness with great physical prowess. ...

Ministry in a Fallen World

In 1983 the First Presbyterian Church of Concord, California was in the headlines. Pastor Leon Thompson had convinced his 500 member congregation to purchase ...

Experiencing God

There is a splendid moment in the movie Jurassic Park, when world-class paleontologist Allen Grant, who has devoted his life to the study of dinosaurs, ...

Waiting for a Savior

In his book, Detours: Sometimes Rough Roads Lead to Right Places, Clark Cothern tells of a Christmas when his family encountered an unexpected house guest. ...

No Antiseptic Evangelism

Today, thanks to a small Canadian software company, high school students can get through biology class without smelling like formaldehyde. While students ...

Christ’s Humble Birth

In his best-selling book, The Jesus I Never Knew, Philip Yancey contrasts the humility that characterized Jesus’ royal visit to planet earth with ...

Jesus "Translates" the Father

In Just Like Jesus, Max Lucado writes:

There were a few occasions in Brazil when I served as a translator for an English speaker. He stood before the audience, ...

Jesus Was Not Recognized

Cary Grant once told how he was walking along a street and met a fellow whose eyes locked onto him with excitement. The man said, "Wait a minute, ...

Remaking God in Our Image

Our society has taken Jesus and recreated him in our own cultural image. When I hear Jesus being proclaimed from the television stations across our country, ...