Losing God

Even sermon making, incessant and taxing as an art, as a duty, as a work, or as a pleasure, will harden and estrange the heart by neglect of prayer from ...

Misplaced Passion

The core problem is not that we are too passionate about bad things, but that we are not passionate enough about good things.

Where's the Fire?

Some men's prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.

World Movers

We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

The Greatest Loss

There are many kinds of sorrow on earth, but the deepest of all sorrows is when the heart loses Christ, and He is no longer seen, and there is no hope ...

Faith Without Passion

Very few of us [Christians] could say with Paul's conviction, "For me to live is Christ." If we experienced this as a transforming joy, ...

Address the Changing World

If church leaders don't address the changing world, what was once a vital church will become, within a generation, the equivalent of a religious historical ...

Unfit for Persecution

The greatest criticism of the Church today is that no one wants to persecute it: because there is nothing very much to persecute it about.

Enormous Barrier

A feeble, nominal Christianity is the great obstacle to the conversion of the world.

Mild Cases of Christianity

Chad Walsh wrote an intriguing book entitled Early Christians of the Twenty-First Century. He provoked my thinking with words like these:

"Millions ...