Augustine on Loving God and Living Well

To live well is nothing other than to love God with all one's heart, with all one's soul, and with all one's efforts; from this it comes about that love ...

Man Refuses to Deny Jesus While under Attack

Following Sunday worship services on January 8, 2006, five young men attacked and threatened to kill a Protestant church leader in Turkey's fourth ...

Broken Bottle Demonstrates Extravagance for God

Text: "'Leave her alone,' said Jesus. 'Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.'" (Mark 14:3–11). ...

Dostoevsky Finds Christ after Escaping Death

Fyodor Dostoevsky was one of the most famous and accomplished Russian writers of the 19th century.

Early in his life, Dostoevsky underwent a virtual resurrection. ...

Gospel Singer Sees Material Poverty but Spiritual Wealth

In 1988, in a small, struggling church in Argentina, gospel singer Damaris Carbaugh saw something she wanted. She was accompanying Brooklyn Tabernacle ...

We Become What We Love

The more you love something, the more you become like it. For example, I have a friend that loves tennis. He wears tennis stuff. He reads tennis magazines. ...

Relationship with Christ Makes Change Easier

When I was dating my wife, Anna, one thing I admired about her was her love for sports. I love sports too, but there are two sports I don't like. ...

Religion Without Relationship Is Meaningless

Wayne Cordeiro, pastor of New Hope Christian Fellowship O'ahu in Honolulu, Hawaii, writes:

Some time ago some wonderful people in our church gave Anna, ...

Preferring Mom's Apple Pie

When I was growing up, whenever we went out to dinner as a family, and the possibility of ordering dessert came up, my father would say to me, "Don't ...

Advent a Foreshadow of Good

Theologian Dale Bruner writes:

David Peterson, former pastor at the First Presbyterian Church in Spokane, Washington, told about a time when he was preparing ...