God in the Line of Fire

In the 1993 hit film In the Line of Fire, Clint Eastwood played Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan. Horrigan had protected the life of the President ...

Taking the Sting

A boy and his father were driving down a country road on a beautiful spring afternoon, when a bumblebee flew in the car window. The little boy, who was ...

How Splendid the Cross

How splendid the cross of Christ!

It brings life, not death;

light, not darkness;

Paradise, not its loss.

It is the wood on which

the Lord, like a great warrior,

Incomparable Cost

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things; but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

Being Offensive for Christ

We don't want to be personally or institutionally offensive, but we cannot buffer the offense of the cross.

Life Through Death

The cross is rough and it is deadly, but it is effective.

Real Meaning in the Cross

[Somehow] we never see God in failure, but only in success--a strange attitude for people who have the cross as the center of their faith.

Identifying with Christ

In the book, The Fire of Your Life, Maggie Ross recounts the story of Emma, a survivor of the Holocaust, who regularly at 4 p.m. each day stood outside ...

Resurrection, not Bookkeeping

You're worried about permissiveness--about the way the preaching of grace seems to say it's okay to do all kinds of terrible things as long as ...

Contemplating the Crucifixion

Contemplate the drops of blood, the blows in the face, the persistence of the whip, the crown of thorns, the derision and spitting.