Losing Fear of Consequences

Andy Stanley writes:

When I was in seventh grade, the school tried to scare us to death about using alcohol. We saw a film about a party where students ...

Compassion Energizes Ministry

Pastor Matthew Woodley writes:

Two years ago I nearly ditched the pastorate. I started focusing on the negatives of my job: the Saturday-night sermon-anxiety ...

The Day Niagara Was Silent

An estimated 500,000 tons of water rush over Niagara Falls every minute. On March 29, 1948, the falls suddenly stopped. People living within the sound ...

Halfway Equals Lukewarm

A "halfway Christian" works both sides of the street. He is religious because it helps him in business and gives him a self-righteous satisfaction. ...

First Experience of Need

When you can go through contemporary life fudging and evading, indulging and slacking, never really hungry nor frightened nor passionately stirred--your ...

The Dangers of Contentment

A man looking at the present in light of the future, and taking his whole being into account, may be contented with his lot: that is Christian contentment. ...

When God Speaks

Any of us more than 25 years old can probably remember where we were when we first heard of President Kennedy's assassination in 1963. British novelist ...

$3 Worth of God

I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please, not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze ...

The Peril of Lesser Goals

I asked a preacher, "How are you getting along?" He said, "We are living in idolatry--just sitting around admiring our new church. We have ...

Trivial Pursuit

In biblical days prophets were astir while the world was asleep; today the world is astir while church and synagogue are busy with trivialities.