Practice Makes Perfect

Effectiveness is a habit; that is, a complex of practices. And practices can always be learned. Practices are simple, deceptively so; even a seven-year-old ...

Taming Our Sinful Nature

In an article about Asian men who train eagles for hunting, Stephen Kinzer writes:

The capture, taming, training, and keeping of eagles is highly ritualized. ...

Life's Mountains and Valleys

Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.

God Molds His Servants

If you are going to be used by God, he will take you through a multitude of experiences that are not meant for you at all; they are meant to make you ...

Drought Brings Desert

During times of revival ... prayer flows more easily. Preaching is more powerful. Guidance is more vivid. In contrast at other times we learn the tougher ...

Sinful Nature

The famous cuckoo bird never builds its own nest. It flies around until it sees another nest with eggs in it and no mother bird around. The cuckoo quickly ...

Drawn to God

There is within us all a magnetic draw to seek God's presence in a more exclusive way, focusing on divine attention rather than our own egocentric list ...

God Will Waste Nothing

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

Evangelism Includes Discipleship

If you walk out into one of the parking lots this morning and someone says to you, "How do I get to Chicago?"

You say, "Well, get in your ...

Two-Way Ticket

While it is a crucial mistake to assume that churches can be on an outward journey without being on an inward one, it is equally disasterous to assume ...