Keeping the Spirit in Christmas

Residents of Wauconda, Illinois: They refused to let the plug be pulled on Christmas.

Two water towers have always served as landmarks for travelers heading ...

Against the Wind

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

Toil Builds Character

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.

You Need to Have a Kick

Have you ever noticed that world-class runners have a "kick?" A kick is a technical runner's term that means when they get to that last ...

Walk, Don't Run

God's Word often refers to the Christian experience as a walk, seldom as a run, and never as a mad dash.

Yet I Will Praise

Margaret Sangster Phippen wrote that in the mid 1950s her father, British minister W. E. Sangster, began to notice some uneasiness in his throat and a ...

Endurance Takes a Big Heart

A recent television documentary pointed out that the cheetah survives on the African plains by running down its prey. The big cat can sprint seventy miles ...

Delight out of Disaster

I once read about farmers in southern Alabama who were accustomed to planting one crop every year--cotton. They would plow as much ground as they could ...

Pain for Gain

The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be.

Lessons of Waiting

Second only to suffering, waiting may be the greatest teacher and trainer in godliness, maturity, and genuine spirituality most of us ever encounter.