John Newton, author of "Amazing Grace"

John Newton (1725-1807)

A "wretch" who found "Amazing Grace!"

John Newton was nurtured by a devoted Christian mother who dreamed that ...

The Truth Looks Back

Christian truth itself has eyes to see with. In fact it is all eye. That's very disquieting. Think of looking at a painting and discovering that the ...

And the Church Was Saved

When a church in a rural section of Canada was being moved, the steeple hit an electric power line and caught fire.

One of the men rushed to a nearby farmhouse ...

The Jesus Prayer

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

Too Important Not to Share

One Mercedes Benz TV commercial shows their car colliding with a cement wall during a safety test. Someone then asks the company spokesman why they do ...

Taking Captive the Captives

Eating lunch at a small cafe, Mark Reed of Camarillo, California, saw a sparrow hop through the open door and peck at the crumbs near his table. When ...

Evening and Morning

The Hebrew evening/morning sequence conditions us to the rhythms of grace. We go to sleep, and God begins his work. ... We wake into a world we didn't ...

Rescuing Those in Peril

Roger Storms, pastor of First Christian Church in Chandler, Arizona, tells this story: "One Sunday, a car had broken down in the alley behind our ...

Getting Into Heaven

In the late 1800s, Charles Berry, an English preacher, became the pastor of the great Plymouth Church in Brooklyn. One day Berry described how earlier ...

Salvation Is a Gift

Salvation is a gift of God's grace, not the result of correct child-rearing techniques.