Rescuing Those in Peril

Roger Storms, pastor of First Christian Church in Chandler, Arizona, tells this story: "One Sunday, a car had broken down in the alley behind our ...

Education in the Red-Light District

When my wife and I went to Dallas Seminary, we decided we wouldn't live in the "cemetery" housing. Instead, we lived in the high-class, ...

You Can't Climb for Others

You cannot pull people uphill who do not want to go; you can only point up.

The Deepest Joy

Surely there can be no deeper joy than that of saving souls.

Analogies for Evangelism

Evangelism is like strong horseradish: people praise it with tears in their eyes.

There are other word associations we could make with the concept of evangelism. ...

An Attractive Spirit

You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit ...

Preaching to the Dying

Andrew Meekens, an elder in the International Evangelical Church of Addis Ababa, was one of those who died on November 23, 1996, when a hijacked jet ran ...

Seeing God Within

Are we attractive Christians? Do we give people the impression that the most marvelous thing in the world is to be a Christian and to have the Spirit ...

Lord, Convert My Parish

My God, grant me the conversion of my parish; I am willing to suffer all my life whatsoever it may please thee to lay upon me; yes even for a hundred ...

The Witness of an Opthalmologist

The greatest witness for Jesus Christ that I know anything about in the city of Dallas is not a preacher. He's an ophthalmologist. He was in the power ...