Second-century Philosopher on the Upside-down Nature of the Kingdom

The second-century Greek philosopher Celsus captures well just how upside-down the Kingdom of God is—and just how confusing that can seem to unbelievers. ...

Perfect Fear Casting Out Love

Perfect love may cast out fear, but fear is remarkably potent in casting out love.

—P. D. James, English author (1920- )

"A Beautiful Mind": Loving the Unlovable

The movie A Beautiful Mind tells the story of John Nash, a brilliant mathematician whose career and life were crippled by schizophrenia. Nash taught at ...

Rejected Orphan Hears, "I Want This Child"

Pastor Lee Strobel tells this story:

Shortly after the Korean War, a Korean woman had an affair with an American soldier, and she got pregnant. He went ...

Divine Love in Us

One Sunday in our church service, a woman who sings in our choir, a former drug addict with the HIV virus, told the story of how she came to Christ. She ...

Martin Luther King, Jr., on Lincoln

In his sermon "Loving Your Enemies," Martin Luther King, Jr., said:

When Abraham Lincoln was running for president of the United States, there ...

Kindness to Strangers

[My wife], Gail, and I were in an airplane flying to Boston. We were seated almost at the back of the airliner in the two aisle seats across from each ...

Teams at Their Best

In the Arkansas Democrat Gazette (2-7-99), Larry Pillow writes:

Like every graduating class in Arkansas, the 1997 graduating class of Witts Springs, Arkansas, ...

Seeing with God's Eyes

If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow.

Tested through Other People

It is no use pretending we are broken before God if we are not broken in our attitude to those around us. God nearly always tests us through other people. ...