Substitutes for Transformation

Pastor John Ortberg reflects:

Conforming to boundary markers too often substitutes for authentic transformation.

The church I grew up in had its boundary ...

Hearing God's Word of Love

When Steve Henning of Huntley, Illinois, was two years old, he contracted spinal meningitis. It was the winter of 1943, and because of World War II, doctors ...

Thief Redeemed by Love

The movie Les Misérables, based on the novel by Victor Hugo, opens with a vagabond curled up on a stone bench on a desolate French street corner. ...

Team President Redeems Athlete

Lou Johnson, a 1965 World Series hero for the Los Angeles Dodgers, tried for 30 years to recover the championship ring he lost to drug dealers in 1971. ...

Don't Recycle Old Life

In the late 1920s my grandparents married and moved into Grandpa's old family home. It was a clapboard house with a hall down the middle. In the '30s ...

Repentance Isn't Fatal

Repentance is not a fatal day when tears are shed, but a natal day when, as a result of tears, a new life begins.

Treating the Future Man

If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay that way, but if you treat him as if he were what he could be, he will become what he could be.

A Birth at the Border

On his night job at Taco Bell, 17-year-old Nicholas Zenns was taking orders at the drive-up window. He heard a woman scream, turned, and saw a very pregnant ...

Joy for a New Christian

If the angels in heaven rejoice and shout when a person gives his life to Christ, why should we be denied the same joy?

$3 Worth of God

I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please, not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze ...