The Best Witness a Church Can Have

The best way for people to learn about the church is by seeing a face and hearing a voice say, "We're here to serve in the name of Christ, and ...

He Must Increase

When Mother Teresa was passing through a crowd in Detroit a woman remarked, "Her secret is that she is free to be nothing. Therefore God can use ...

Christ Wants You

It is possible to be so active in the service of Christ as to forget to love him. Many a man preaches Christ but gets in front of him by the multiplicity ...

Following Gifts Isn't Always Easy

Some people have the notion that following your spiritual gifts is spending the days and years of your life doing only those things which come naturally, ...

Great Therapy

Karl Menninger, the [late] psychiatrist, was asked what someone should do who feels on the verge of a nervous breakdown. His advice? "Lock your house, ...

The Other Spurgeon

One day I was jogging in the forest near my house when a question popped into my mind: What about John Spurgeon?

I admit, not many people are losing sleep ...

To Know Him Is to Serve Him

The proportion in which I know my Lord is the proportion in which I am prepared to serve Him. Is it not certain that when I know as I am known I shall ...

Incarnation's Awful Price

I would not choose the slums of Calcutta, India, for my vacation. There were extraordinary people who worked among the deformity and decay of leper colonies ...

Work Is Never Done

Despite his popularity, John Chrysostom sometimes became discouraged with the seeming deafness of his listeners as they failed to apply the truths he ...

Our Level Best

We have nothing to do with how much ability we've got, or how little, but with what we do with what we have. The man with great talent is apt to be ...