On Being a Living Mystery

To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way ...

A Conversation with a Waitress Changes Everything for Minister

Hugh Halter, co-author of The Tangible Kingdom, shares a moment that changed the way he approaches unbelievers:

Two weeks after 9/11, I was in Queens, ...

Converts More Likely to Share Faith on Regular Basis

Converts (people who have switched religions) who say they share their faith at least weekly: 29 percent.

Those who adhere to the faith of their childhood ...

Obedience Opens Up Scripture More Than Anything Else

Eugene Peterson writes in “Eat This Book”:

At age 35 I bought running shoes and began enjoying the smooth rhythms of long-distance running. ...

The Day the Students Went on Strike

Anne Miller, age 22, was a few weeks into her first real teaching job—a summer program teaching at-risk middle schoolers—when she walked into ...

Pastor Makes Tough Decision on Risky Missions Trip

In his book The Jesus Revolution, pastor and author Leith Anderson shares a story about the tension that sometimes comes between obeying God and obeying ...

On Being Reactors, Not Actors

In our lives in the world, the temptation is always to go where the world takes us, to drift with whatever current happens to be running strongest. When ...

Converted Muslim Shows Thanks to Army Doctor

In 1993, Lt. Col. Gary Morsch joined the Army Reserves as a doctor to care not only for U.S. soldiers, but also for wounded civilians and prisoners of ...

The Important Relationship Between Grace and Repentance

When grace introduces us to repentance, the two of us become best friends. When anything else introduces us to repentance, it feels like the warden has ...

The Power of a Mother's Touch

Elisa Morgan writes in "The Power of a Mother's Touch”:

I was in line at the grocery checkout. A few feet in front of me, a mother guided ...