Holding Jesus

We human being are so security-oriented. Whether it is conscious or not, we all need and want security in our lives. From the time we are born, we are ...

God Brings Out Our Best

We are all asked to do more than we can do. Every hero and heroine of the Bible does more than he would have thought it possible to do, from Gideon to ...

Faith on the Line

What is hazardous in my life is my work as a Christian. Every day I put faith on the line. I have never seen God. In a world where nearly everything can ...

A Hopeful Beginning

God's plan made a hopeful beginning,

But man spoiled his chances by sinning.

We trust that the story

Will end with God's glory,

But at present, the ...

Hope Sees Past and Future

Hope stands up to its knees in the past and keeps its eyes on the future. There has never been a time past when God wasn't with us as the strength ...

Trustworthy Christians

In Living Above the Level of Mediocrity, Chuck Swindoll writes:

On Sunday, believers arrived at a house church in the Soviet Union in small groups throughout ...

Finding a Fixed Point

On day six of the ill-fated mission of Apollo 13, the astronauts needed to make a critical course correction. If they failed, they might never return ...

Faith is the Glue

The people who jest about faith don't realize how big a part it plays in everyday affairs. It takes faith to get married because marriage vows are ...

Prayer and Faith Go Together

Many a person is praying for rain with his tub the wrong side up.

Not a Silent Night

My parents, Salvation Army officers, were out on a miserable December night for an open-air meeting. Not another person was around, but my dad said that ...