Discipline Pays Off

In The Sacred Romance, John Eldredge writes:

As a young boy, around the time my heart began to suspect that the world was a fearful place and I was on ...

Church Growth in China

In spite of the fact that missionaries were expelled in the early 1950s and Christians endured severe persecution in the mid-1960s, the number of Christians ...

Realist or Idealist?

A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.

When the Going Gets Tough ...

A weak faith is weakened by predicaments and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them. (Note: Viktor Frankl was a Holocaust survivor) ...

Missionaries' Pressures

What problems do missionaries face? For what things do they need prayer? Cedric Johnson and David Penner surveyed 55 North American Protestant mission ...

God Uses Troughs

It is a fact of Christian experience that life is a series of troughs and peaks. In his efforts to get permanent possession of a soul, God relies on the ...

Communing With God

If you've made a habit of communing with God when the sun is shining, you'll find it much easier to sing in the rain.

The Road to Excellence

Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and ...

Some Through the Fire

Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love. There are ...

Christaholics Vs. Disciples

Many Christians are only "Christaholics" and not disciples at all. Disciples are cross-bearers; they seek Christ. Christaholics seek happiness. ...