Preaching through Prison Bars

Frederick Martin (1704-1750) established the ministry on St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John. One secret of the success of this native of Upper Silesia ...

Failure and Perseverance

When he was seven years old, his family was forced out of their home on a legal technicality, and he had to work to help support them. At age nine, his ...

Broken Things

God uses broken things. Broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the ...

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 ...