Acting into Christlikeness

In many ways we act our way into Christlikeness more than we pray our way into Christlikeness.

Walk the Talk

To many Christians, Christ is little more than an idea, or at best an ideal--He is not a fact. Millions of professed believers talk as if He were real ...

Kingdom Citizenship

While serving as a missionary in Laos, I discovered an illustration of the kingdom of God. Before the colonialists imposed national boundaries, the kings ...

When Lives Don't Change

What a deal there is of going to meetings and getting blessed, and then going away and living just the same, until sometimes we, who are constantly engaged ...

Would Jesus Buy a BMW?

Nothing is more controversial than to be a follower of Jesus Christ. Nothing is more dangerous than to live out the will of God in today's contemporary ...

Saint in Shoe Leather

A gilt-edged saint is no good, he is abnormal, unfit for daily life, and altogether unlike God. We are here as men and women, not as half-fledged angels, ...

How Much You Care

Those to whom you minister may not always perfectly understand what you say, but they will soon know whether you love them or not. The secret of many ...

Live Joyfully Like Paul

God is no distant deity but a constant reality, a very present help whenever needs occur. So? So live like it. And laugh like it! [The apostle] Paul did. ...

Identity and the Census

In "A Portrait of America," Newsweek (1/17/83) poked some fun at the national census:

"Give your name and age and business. Is your husband ...

The Witness of a Saint

A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.