Seeing the Stars

Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars.

God Intervenes

If you want a wonderful experience, take your New Testament and use a concordance to look up the two little words, "but God." See how many times ...

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.

Murphy's Church Laws

Murphy in the Pew

Next to the Law of Gravity, one of the most inescapable universal truths is undoubtedly Murphy's Law: "If anything can go wrong, ...

Young at Heart

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair. ...

Born to Lose

Once walking through the twisted little streets of Kowloon in Hong Kong, I came upon a tattoo studio. In the window were displayed samples of the tattoos ...

Near-Sightedness

What destroys perspective is our penchant to measure ministry on too small a scale. We lose the wide-angle view because we're riveted on the close-up. ...

A Worn-Out Heart

In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage, so long are you ...

Forgetting What Lies Behind...

If you've done the best you can--if you have done what you have to do--there is no use worrying about it, because nothing can change it, and to be ...