Frightening Zeal

David McCullough in his book Mornings on Horseback tells this story about young Teddy Roosevelt:

"Mittie (his mother) had found he was so afraid of ...

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.

Growing the Wrong Direction?

[American Christianity] is more Petrine than Johannean; more like busy Martha than like the pensive Mary, sitting at the feet of Jesus. It expands more ...

Love Wins Souls

If you can really make a man believe you love him, you have won him; and if I could only make people really believe that God loves them, what a rush we ...

Privileged Commission

It is our privilege to have world evangelism as a passion, not our responsibility to have as a burden.

Where Is Your Spirit?

I want to share with you a question by Martyn Lloyd-Jones, who is certainly not known as a Pentecostal preacher. When he held the great pulpit at Westminster ...

Misplaced Passion

The core problem is not that we are too passionate about bad things, but that we are not passionate enough about good things.

Do What You Can

We can get so hooked on the idea of excelling that when we realize we can't be number one, we quit in despair. If I can't be Billy Graham, I won't ...

Where's the Fire?

Some men's prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.

Running in Circles

I once read the following definition of a fanatic: "A fanatic is a person who, having lost sight of his goal, redoubles his effort to get there." ...