Following Gifts Isn't Always Easy

Some people have the notion that following your spiritual gifts is spending the days and years of your life doing only those things which come naturally, ...

Cheerful Linemen

Buffalo Bills offensive lineman Glenn Parker speculated as to why NFL linemen are generally cheerful: "There are not a lot of well-paying jobs for ...

In His Name

When my daughter Aimee was in nursery school, she'd come home each day with drawings, collages, and other projects. Next to her own name she'd ...

Boredom Breeds Sin

Many think the Christian life is prosaic, dull, uneventful. It is anything but that! If it appears that way, it is almost certainly a life out of focus ...

Study Overdose

You know you're spending too much time in the study

• When thou speaketh to thy children and helpmate thusly.
• When you start seeing the evening paper laid out in chapters and verses.

Life's Most Powerful Force

The Christian business person attracts people to Christ by serving need, not greed. When we do something to meet someone's need, he will ask why we ...

Look for the One with the Burden

Find the person in your church who has a real burden for a specific task, and then let him do it.

The Pressure of Time

Have you felt the pressure of time this week? Time can be a massive pressure as we're talking about here, but I enjoyed the story this week of Porris ...

A Proverb for Our Times

There's an old Greek proverb that says, "The bow that is always bent will soon break." What that proverb seems to be implying is that the ...

Moody's Nearly Fatal Voyage

D.L. Moody and his son Will boarded the ocean liner Spree at Southampton, England, on November 23, 1892. Moody had just finished revival meetings in London, ...