Pastor's Prayer

Lord, as a pastor sometimes I feel like I'm in sales and promotion. Help me remember that the idea, at the heart of it all, is not to "get" ...

Life after Repentance

All of us, perhaps, are too ready, when our behaviour turns out to have appalling consequences, to rush out and hang ourselves. Sometimes we do worse, ...

Importance of Good Examples

It's important to expose men and women to peers who have maintained Christian values.

The History of Truth

The example of noble deaths such as the Spartans and others hardly move us, for we do not see what good it is to us. But the example of the deaths of ...

Christian Ambassadors

For the watching world, we ourselves serve proof that God is alive. We form the visible shape of what he is like.

Built-In Character

There was a family in the San Francisco Bay area that grew up with commitment. The son's name was David Kraft. His father was a pastor, a godly pastor ...

Clear Illumination

Seek to live with such lucidity that the clarity of your motives becomes a lens which projects the image of Christ upon the screens of others' lives. ...

Sharing Ministry with Your Family

In rearing their children, the [Luis] Palaus emphasized not only learning about life in other nations, but helping to make a difference. When possible, ...

Practice It, Preacher

It is an obvious error for all to see in those ministers of the Church who make such a wide gulf between their preaching and their living. They will study ...

Go, Granny, Go!

On a hot summer day I was sitting near an open window sewing and keeping an eye on my three grandsons playing outside.

"Let's play cops and robbers," ...