Discipleship Means Joy

If we answer the call to discipleship, where will it lead us? What decisions and partings will it demand? To answer this question we shall have to go ...

God's Fairness

The parable of the vineyard workers (Matthew 20) offends our sense of fairness. Why should everyone get equal pay for unequal work?

Back in Ontario when ...

A Lesson on Death and Taxes

Gary Thomas writes in Christianity Today: Thinking about eternity helps us retrieve [perspective]. I'm reminded of this every year when I figure my ...

Sacrificial Living's Payoff

God's wisdom is not first counsel on how to practice family values or to use common sense. It is the wisdom of His plan of grace, the wisdom of the ...

In Search of a Better Place

I read about two teenagers in Chicago who wanted to prove their love for each other. They went to the top of a six story building, kissed each other, ...

Children: God's Rewards

As a single parent with a full-time job and three young children, I often listen to Christian radio as an extra source of strength to cope with my day-to-day ...

What Is Most Rewarding

What is most rewarding is doing something that really matters with congenial colleagues who share with us the firm conviction that it needs to be done. ...

God Desires Diversity

The idea that success is measuring up to someone else's standard is a lie. ... God needs a diversity of people.

Nearing the Shepherd's Fold

Shepherds say that sheep that have spent the summer in the high country and are on their way back to the shepherd's fold anticipate their homecoming. ...

The Reward for Our Labor

Our office is a ministry of grace and salvation. It subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude ...