Wesley’s High Standard for Methodists

John Wesley lived a disciplined life and was not afraid to hold other Methodists to a similar standard. His journal gives the impression that he spent ...

Seminary Student Learns from a Rebuke

Gordon MacDonald writes:

As a seminarian, I was asked to write and deliver a paper to a special forum of students and faculty. Typical for me, I put off ...

Corrected by a Homeless Man's Rebuke

A homeless man in New York City rebuked me one day. I found him going through a trashcan on the side of our Manhattan church building. Frankly, I was ...

Parents Sometimes Love by Complaining

Some years ago, when a serial killer known as the Hillside Strangler was attacking and killing young women in our La Cañada neighborhood, our teenage ...

Learning to Heed Rebuke

In the earliest days of my ministry, I cultivated the habit of meeting with our board chairman every Monday morning to gain his perspective on how things ...

Vince Gill Learns a Lesson

Country singer Vince Gill tells about meeting a young cancer patient named Tara:

I remember meeting her in the hospital after playing golf all day, and ...

Willing to Be Corrected

Early in his career, Matt Redman, the popular Christian musician in Britain, was singing with his church's praise band when his pastor confronted ...

Leaders: How Confident?

In the movie U-571, actor Matthew McConaughey plays Lt. Andrew Tyler, a World War II naval officer assigned to a U.S. submarine on a mission to capture ...

A Saving Rebuke

One time, twenty or so years ago, I was in Japan on a speaking tour with a close personal friend. He was a number of years older than I was. As we walked ...

All Are to Be Loved

Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low-spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the ...