Frederick Douglass on Escaping Slavery

Frederick Douglass grew up as a slave in Maryland in the early nineteenth century and experienced slavery's every brutality. He was taken from his ...

Show and Tell

Evangelism is not what we tell people, unless what we tell is totally consistent with who we are. It is who we are that is going to make the difference. ...

Repentance Isn't Fatal

Repentance is not a fatal day when tears are shed, but a natal day when, as a result of tears, a new life begins.

The Company of the Discouraged

The company of the discouraged is a very noble company. Not too long ago, the Hayden Planetarium in New York City issued an invitation to all those who ...

Treating the Future Man

If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay that way, but if you treat him as if he were what he could be, he will become what he could be.

Carey's First Indian Convert

Krishna Chandra Pal

(d. 1822)

Carey's first Indian convert

Krishna Chandra Pal lived a life of "firsts." He worked near Serampore as a carpenter ...

A Birth at the Border

On his night job at Taco Bell, 17-year-old Nicholas Zenns was taking orders at the drive-up window. He heard a woman scream, turned, and saw a very pregnant ...

The Reason for God's Gift

God gave us his Son not that we might become better people but that we might become the New Humanity.

Be Born in Us Today

If Jesus were born one thousand times in Bethlehem and not in me, then I would still be lost.

The Baby that Changed Everything

Did you ever read Bret Harte's story The Luck of Roaring Camp? Roaring Camp was supposed to be, according to the story, the meanest, toughest mining ...