Restoring the Master's Workmanship

The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is one of the greatest artistic triumphs in history. From 1508 to 1512, the artist Michelangelo lay on his back and ...

Purpose of Incarnation

He became what we are that he might make us what he is.

Don't Recycle Old Life

In the late 1920s my grandparents married and moved into Grandpa's old family home. It was a clapboard house with a hall down the middle. In the '30s ...

Perfection Is Possible

The command "be ye perfect"" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He is going to make us into creatures that ...

How God's Children Change

When I was a child, my minister father brought home a 12-year-old boy named Roger, whose parents had died from a drug overdose. There was no one to care ...

Sin Hard to Kill

Dead snakes can bite. Dead snakes bit five of thirty-five snakebite victims admitted to Good Samaritan Hospital [in Phoenix, Arizona, in a one year period] ...

Remember Who You Are

On May 28, 1972, the Duke of Windsor, the uncrowned King Edward VIII, died in Paris. On the same evening, a television program recounted the main events ...

Parasitic Nature of Sin

The guinea worm is a parasite found in certain areas of central Africa. It begins its life as a larvae and often hitches a ride in a millimeter-long crustacean ...

Obnoxious Saints

If you are a saint, God will continually upset your program, and if you are wedded to your program, you will become that most obnoxious creature under ...

John Newton, author of "Amazing Grace"

John Newton (1725-1807)

A "wretch" who found "Amazing Grace!"

John Newton was nurtured by a devoted Christian mother who dreamed that ...