Don't Test Salvation

Christians have often disagreed over whether believers can forsake their salvation. Perhaps we should compare our situation to riding in the back of a ...

The Definition of Ministry

Ministry is giving when you feel like keeping, praying for others when you need to be prayed for, feeding others when your own soul is hungry, living ...

Going Beyond Past Achievements

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

The Bravest Ones

The bravest are surely those who have the dearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

The Harder Choice

It doesn't take much to say "I quit." It takes a lot more to say "I'll try."

What Courage Is

Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.

Preaching through Prison Bars

Frederick Martin (1704-1750) established the ministry on St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John. One secret of the success of this native of Upper Silesia ...

Failure and Perseverance

When he was seven years old, his family was forced out of their home on a legal technicality, and he had to work to help support them. At age nine, his ...

Broken Things

God uses broken things. Broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the ...

Keeping the Spirit in Christmas

Residents of Wauconda, Illinois: They refused to let the plug be pulled on Christmas.

Two water towers have always served as landmarks for travelers heading ...