Turn Around

Repentance is not basically a religious word. It comes from a culture where people were essentially nomadic and lived in a world with no maps or street ...

Can't Buy Heaven

Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; ...

Dramatic Conversion

All Sins Swept Away:

A slave describes her delayed but dramatic conversion.

Jarena Lee (1783-c.1850) was one of the outstanding preachers in the African ...

Our Greatest Calling

The greatest business of our calling is to advance divine life in the world ... to frame and mold the souls of men into a conformity to God ... to enlighten ...

The Need to Be Washed

Revival in my own life has been brought together by the near psychotic connection of two events--first, by a character in the late 60's who stepped ...

Don't Stay in the Water

You don't drown by falling in the water, you drown by staying there.

Becoming Your Own

I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.

A Different Path to Freedom

If we or the world could be saved through human kindness or clear thinking, Jesus either would have formed a sensitivity group and urged us to share our ...

Jesus' Unique Success

At the end of the life of Jesus, he cried out from the cross, "It is finished." So it must have been a success. But by human standards, his ...

Don't Test Salvation

Christians have often disagreed over whether believers can forsake their salvation. Perhaps we should compare our situation to riding in the back of a ...