Setting Our Upper Limit

Colin Smith, pastor of Arlington Heights Evangelical Free Church, writes:

I have vivid memories as a kid of my father taking me to an auction sale. He ...

IBM CEO Says to Change Everything But...

Thomas J. Watson Jr., founder and CEO of IBM from 1956 to 1971 wrote:

I firmly believe that any organization, in order to survive and achieve success, ...

Church Invests in the Needy

One Thanksgiving, Denny Bellesi asked for volunteers to join him at the altar of the Coast Hills Community Church in Aliso Viejo, California. He didn't ...

"Men in Black": Worth the Sacrifice

Men in Black is a comedy about two special agents who work for Men in Black, an underground agency created to protect earth from tyrant extraterrestrials. ...

Evangelism Is Like an Usher's Obligation to Rescue Others

The story goes that a young man applied for a job as an usher at a theater in the mall. The manager asked him, "What would you do in case a fire ...

At World Trade Center, Father Seeks Lost Son

In "American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center," William Langewiesche writes about the cleanup of the World Trade Center disaster. In ...

Leaders and Followers at Mount Everest

The summit of Mount Everest in the Himalayan Mountains of Nepal towers 29,035 feet above sea level. On May 29, 1953, two men were the first to reach its ...

Burnhams Faced Death with Joy

Less than a week before Martin Burnham's abduction by Muslim guerrillas on the Philippine island of Palawan in May 2001, the New Tribes missionary ...

High Stakes of Following Christ

Calvin Miller writes:

I think the most vibrant missionaries I have met are medical doctors serving in lonely outposts of the Arab world. These physicians ...

How the Apostle Paul Suffered in Prison

The Apostle Paul spent roughly one-quarter of his missionary career in prisons. John McRay wrote in Christian History:

Roman imprisonment was preceded ...