Intercessory Prayer for a Fearful Friend

Arlyn Lawrence writes in "The Other Great Commission?":

Carrie was a casual acquaintance from church—an outgoing person with a quick smile ...

Love Saves Disabled Man from Violence

Al Janssen writes in "The Marriage Masterpiece":

Late one evening, while attending a conference in the German city of Hamburg, I boarded a commuter ...

John Wesley's Probing Questions

John Ortberg writes:

In the movement associated with John Wesley, people met together in little communities to help hold each other accountable for their ...

Attorney Gets Dose of Reality

An attorney named Marty, while working out in a gym, became friends with a fellow who was there lifting weights. The attorney's new friend, Vernon ...

Willing to Be Corrected

Early in his career, Matt Redman, the popular Christian musician in Britain, was singing with his church's praise band when his pastor confronted ...

Slander Destroys Churches

About 20 years ago, I said something impromptu to the new members standing in a row across the front of the church. As we received them, the Holy Spirit ...

"Remember the Titans": Attitude and Leadership

Based on a true story, Remember the Titans spotlights the character formation of those caught in the difficult transition of integrating T. C. Williams ...

Bill Gates Welcomes Hard Truth

In Business @ the Speed of Thought, Bill Gates, former CEO of Microsoft, writes:

A good e-mail system ensures that bad news can travel fast, but your people ...

Religious Doublespeak

Churches are getting into the doublespeak spirit. ... Take the term "sin," for instance. There's a word we could all live without. I mean, who wants ...

Peanuts on Inner Peace

I saw a Peanuts cartoon with Lucy saying to Charlie Brown, "I hate everything. I hate everybody. I hate the whole wide world!"

Charlie says, ...