You Can't Relive the Past

Many religious people lament that the first fervors of their conversion have died away. They think--sometimes rightly, but not, I believe, always--that ...

Earnestness: Proof of Holiness?

One trouble with earnestness is that those who are possessed by it so often take it as proof certain that they are on God's side.

God's Glory in Wood and Stone

Intriguing facts behind one of medieval Christendom's magnificent legacies:

The Cathedral

Cathedrals required massive amounts of building materials. ...

Don't Kill the Horse

It is possible to throw our lives away foolishly by burning the candle at both ends. When Robert Murray McCheyne, only thirty years old, lay dying, he ...

Yet I Will Praise

Margaret Sangster Phippen wrote that in the mid 1950s her father, British minister W. E. Sangster, began to notice some uneasiness in his throat and a ...

Zeal in Work and Prayer

Work as if everything depended upon your work, and pray as if everything depended upon your prayer.

Rest Makes Rust

In Hot Springs, Arkansas, is the Morris Antique Mall. Nothing on the inside distinguishes this antique store from dozens like it in Hot Springs. There's ...

Inaction Is Risky, Too

"You took a big risk," somebody told me. But it would have been a greater risk to do nothing.

Pray Boldly

Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give but ...

Sources of Enthusiasm

Historians of American higher education note that in the last third of the nineteenth century two things happened when colleges introduced intercollegiate ...