Christian Contradictions

A true Christian is a sign of contradiction--a living symbol of the Cross. He or she is a person who believes the unbelievable, bears the unbearable, ...

Don't Test Salvation

Christians have often disagreed over whether believers can forsake their salvation. Perhaps we should compare our situation to riding in the back of a ...

For All the World to See

Watching a trapeze show is breathtaking. We wonder at the dexterity and timing. We gasp at near-misses. In most cases, there is a net underneath. When ...

Christians Should Be Different

I've recently come back from India where I heard of a little Hindu girl brought up in a strict Hindu family, who had come across Christians. Somebody ...

Let It Shine

Robert Bellah, a sociologist who teaches at the University of California at Berkeley, is very interested in the influence of religion on the community. ...

Joined for Survival

We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will ...

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 ...

Saying Versus Doing

It is not what men eat, but what they digest that makes them strong; not what we gain, but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read, but what ...

Enormous Barrier

A feeble, nominal Christianity is the great obstacle to the conversion of the world.

Mild Cases of Christianity

Chad Walsh wrote an intriguing book entitled Early Christians of the Twenty-First Century. He provoked my thinking with words like these:

"Millions ...