Church Buys Shoes for Kids Who Make Good Choices

A few weeks after I began pastoring Messiah Presbyterian Church in Lubbock, Texas, I heard a teacher from a nearby elementary school tell about a boy ...

Persevering Christians Resemble Beating Heart

We need to be coronary Christians, not adrenal Christians.

Not that adrenaline is bad. It gets me through lots of Sundays. But it lets you down on Mondays. ...

Saved to Complete a Mission

On September 11, Lt. Col. Brian Birdwell (from U.S. Army Headquarters) had just stepped into a Pentagon hallway when the fireball from the hijacked plane ...

What Time I Have Left

Chuck Colson tells the following story of visiting Mississippi's Parchman Prison:

Most of the death row inmates were in their bunks wrapped in blankets, ...

Small Efforts Have Impact

I was asked to conduct the funeral for a man who had helped develop the famous Boeing 747 aircraft. After the service, I spoke with the widow and commented ...

Teach Us to Serve

Teach us, Lord, to serve you as you deserve,

to give and not to count the cost,

to fight and not to heed the wounds,

to toil and not to seek for rest,

to ...

Christians Must Work

There's no such thing as Christians who do not work. It's a work of service. You can't build a home without work. You can't build a church ...

Only God's Instrument

Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God--but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.

Rejoice if you feel that ...

A Trip to the Bathroom

While serving with Operation Mobilization in India in 1967, tuberculosis forced me into a sanitarium for several months. I did not yet speak the language, ...

Ministering at Any Age

Elizabeth Dole writes in Christian Reader:

My grandmother practiced what she preached and lived her life for others. When it became necessary for her, ...