An Attractive Spirit

You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit ...

Confronting the Issues

I met with a young business-lady last week. I pointed out these Scriptures to her, and she said, "You mean to say that Jesus Christ wants me to confront ...

Sinners All

Journalists miss the point when they keep asking, after each new church scandal, if a preacher's fall has shaken the believers' faith. Sin rather ...

Bridging the Gulf

The gulf that separates the Creator and the creature, the gulf between the being we call God and all other beings, is a great and vast and yawning gulf. ...

William Carey Converts

William Carey Converts: How a lukewarm Anglican became a fiery Baptist

Until age 14, William Carey later wrote, "l was addicted to swearing, lying, ...

Joy for a New Christian

If the angels in heaven rejoice and shout when a person gives his life to Christ, why should we be denied the same joy?

Light Is Not Sight

Religious instruction, however sound, is not enough by itself. It brings light, but it cannot impart sight. The assumption that light and sight are synonymous ...

Evil in Good Intentions

Again and again we've been forced to note that the evils that we face are not the work of bad men only, but of good as well. The gravest of our disasters ...

Good Friday and April Fools

There is a strange irony to the 1994 calendar. This Friday is called Good Friday because it marks the anniversary of Jesus' death. But this Friday is ...

God and the Media

It could not possibly be the case that something men have invented, like the media, could never be serviceable to God. ... For instance, once when I was ...