All Is for God

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. ...

Therefore ...

John Calvin's Work Ethic

Calvin did not like to waste a minute of his time. Even on his death-bed, his friends pleaded with him to refrain from his labors. He replied: "What! ...

The Corn Doesn't Matter

Adrian Rogers, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, tells about the man who made his sons work in the cornfields while their peers spent ...

Destiny in the Slums

In More than You and Me, Kevin and Karen Miller write of the power of a God-given vision:

One couple lived in London 130 years ago. For the first 10 years ...

John Cennick: Sensational Lay Preacher

John Cennick (1718-1755)

Sensational lay preacher

Though trained as a land surveyor and writing instructor, John Cennick once was asked to fill in for an ...

Glory or Pragmatism?

I'm afraid that for us the notion of writing, or doing anything, "ad Dei gloriam", to the glory of God, has been swallowed up by the pragmatic concept ...

No More Fugues

The idea that one would build a chair or write a fugue for the sake of making the best chair or music one can is foreign to our culture, even our religious ...

The Most Important Work

The future of the Christian work which is now being carried on with such great intensity does not depend upon curtailment or reorganization. It depends ...

Better to Dare

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy ...

God Wants Living Sacrifices

(God) wants our bodies as living sacrifices, not corpses.