Row Your Boat

God gives us the boat and the oars, but then tells us, "It's up to you to row." Making "positive acts of faith" is like training ...

Feed Your Faith

Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.

The Right Molten Moment

My first pastorate was in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, which was famous at that time for having the world's largest steel-tube rolling mills. They created ...

How Does Your Garden Grow?

Any good gardener knows that beautiful roses require careful pruning. Pieces of a living plant have to die. It cannot just grow wild. We cannot simply ...

Removing Hindrances

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another ...

Dealing with Failure

The way we deal with failure can determine how we sustain motivation.

Let God Take Control

A big part of Christian maturity is learning to let God keep you steady and to be ruled less and less by your emotions and circumstances.

Success on Any Path

Some things make you successful whatever path you take--whether you're on the "mommy track" or in a full-time career outside the home. You ...

The Real Spiritual Life

True spirituality manifests itself in certain dominant desires.

1. First is the desire to be holy rather than happy.

2. A man may be considered spiritual ...

Every Garden Needs a Gardener

In First Things First, A. Roger Merrill tells of a business consultant who decided to landscape his grounds. He hired a woman with a doctorate in horticulture ...