Take Up Your Cross

When Jesus said, "If you are going to follow me, you have to take up a cross," it was the same as saying, "Come and bring your electric ...

Real Cross-Bearing

To deny self does not mean to deny things. It means to give yourself wholly to Christ and share in His shame and death. To take up a cross does not mean ...

Two Lives, Two Goals

Nearly 200 years ago there were two Scottish brothers named John and David Livingstone. John had set his mind on making money and becoming wealthy, and ...

Tough Choices

On July 20, 1993, while cutting down oaks in a Pennsylvania forest, Don Wyman got his leg pinned beneath a fallen tree. No one could hear his yells for ...

God Wants Living Sacrifices

(God) wants our bodies as living sacrifices, not corpses.

Hearers Only, Not Doers

Among the plastic saints of our times Jesus has to do all the dying and all we want is to hear another sermon about His dying.

Life Without Sacrifices

A life without sacrifices is abomination.

Annie Dillard

The Basis of Submission

The basis of submission is submitting ourselves to one another, or "giving way" to one another. Submission is giving way to somebody else. Anne Atkins, ...

A Living Sacrifice

In "From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya" (Academie, 1983), Ruth Tucker writes about Dr. Eleanor Chestnut. After arriving in China in 1893 under the American ...

Marriage and Natural Reason

When that wise harlot, natural reason, looks at married life, she turns up her nose and says, "Ah, should I rock the baby, wash the diapers, make ...