Jesus' Unique Success

At the end of the life of Jesus, he cried out from the cross, "It is finished." So it must have been a success. But by human standards, his ...

Real Meaning in the Cross

[Somehow] we never see God in failure, but only in success--a strange attitude for people who have the cross as the center of their faith.

Sacrificial Living's Payoff

God's wisdom is not first counsel on how to practice family values or to use common sense. It is the wisdom of His plan of grace, the wisdom of the ...

A Cross and Effect Relationship

The relationship between the obedience of God's people and the triumph of God's cause is not a relationship of cause and effect but one of cross ...

Do We Mean Business?

Everybody treats us so nicely. No one seems to think that we mean what we say. When we say "kingdom of God," no one gets apprehensive, as if ...

Death is Dead

When death stung Jesus Christ, it stung itself to death.

Big Brother's Battles

My friends, you are no match for Satan, and when he wants to fight you just run to your elder Brother, who is more than a match for all the devils in ...

Built on the Rock

Growing up on the Atlantic Coast, I spent long hours working on intricate sand castles; whole cities would appear beneath my hands. One year, for several ...

A Christmas Revolution

It was on Christmas Eve, after a Romanian church had gathered for candlelight service, that the Communist soldiers came to take the pastor. The people ...

When Christianity Triumphed

The Christians' triumph over the pagan Empire brought its own problems.

Constantine's imperial patronage did, of course, assure Christianity's ...