Waiting Is Part of God's Refining Process

In smelting and forging, the cooling process is as important as the heating. Metallurgists have discovered that changes occur in the metal itself during ...

Giving What You Cannot Keep

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."

Augustine Refuses Mistress After Conversion

William M. Greathouse writes:

The new man in Christ is therefore actually living a holy life in Christ and in the power of the Spirit. The old man he once ...

"Spider-Man": Looking into M.J.'s Eyes

In the beginning of the movie Spider-Man, Peter Parker undergoes a transformation. Bitten by a spider that's been subjected to genetic experimentation, ...

Losing Fear of Consequences

Andy Stanley writes:

When I was in seventh grade, the school tried to scare us to death about using alcohol. We saw a film about a party where students ...

Jack Bivans Unshackled

For decades Jack Bivans has been one of the radio voices on Unshackled!, the radio theater produced by Chicago's Pacific Garden Mission for over 50 ...

C. S. Lewis Gives Picture of Sanctification

In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C. S. Lewis tells of how a young boy named Eustace becomes a dragon—a very unhappy dragon at that. Eustace steals ...

We Become What We Love

The more you love something, the more you become like it. For example, I have a friend that loves tennis. He wears tennis stuff. He reads tennis magazines. ...

God Works Out Salvation Through Suffering

Suffering is not evidence of God's absence, but of God's presence, and it is in our experience of being broken that God does his surest and most ...

Christians Are Like Pumpkins

A woman asked her coworker, "What is it like to be a Christian?"

The coworker replied, "It is like being a pumpkin. God picks you from the ...