Powerless Christianity

While visiting Grand Coulee Dam, my family and I were surprised to see that the visitor's center was dark. It was a sunny day, so we thought the center ...

The Christian's Resilient Power

People talk about having a "spring in their step." Now you can buy one from Nike. The giant shoe company, after 16 years of research, just released ...

Explaining the Paraclete

The Karre language of equatorial Africa proved to be difficult for the translators of the New Testament, especially when it came to the word paraclete. ...

Power of Contentment

I heard a story some time ago called "The Stonecutter."

Once upon a time, a stonecutter lived all alone. Though he had acquired great skills, ...

Untapped Spiritual Resources

Dr. Bill Bright of Campus Crusade for Christ tells this story of a famous oil field called Yates Pool:

During the depression this field was a sheep ranch ...

The Power of Individuals

The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much--the companies never. It is the units, the single individuals, that are the ...

Pray for Strength

Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger people. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing ...

God Is Fighting Your Battle

Mark what has been the practice of the Devil from the beginning, most cruelly to rage against God's children, when God begins to show them his mercy. ...

God Is Always Able

Once we were able, and now we're not. You know what you used to be able to do. I remember somebody at the Sunday school picnic who had been quite ...

Grace Greater than We Know

Why do we call grace amazing? Grace is amazing because it works against the grain of common sense. Hard-nosed common sense will tell you that you are ...