Someone Must Play Second

Leonard Bernstein, the celebrated orchestra conductor, was once asked, "What is the hardest instrument to play?"

Without a moment's hesitation ...

"Success" Doesn't Count

A missionary wrote me: "Sometimes adversity tempts me to discouragement in the face of seeming failure. But I take courage and press on anew, as ...

Replacing Success with Service

Writer Philip Yancey notes that toward the end of his life, Albert Einstein removed the portraits of two scientists--Newton and Maxwell--from his wall. ...

Happy New Year

Let the year be given to God in its every moment! The year is made up of minutes: let these be watched as having been dedicated to God! It is in the sanctification ...

All Is for God

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. ...

Therefore ...

God Did It All

If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths ...

Who Do You Serve?

While traveling in Ghana, I learned that in the dominant language of Ghana the only way to ask the question, "What is your religion?" is to ...

Diminishing Christ

The chief way you and I are disloyal to Christ is when we make small what he intended to make large.

Acid Test of Servanthood

You can tell whether you are becoming a servant by how you act when people treat you like one.

The God-Absorbed Life

We are called to an everlasting preoccupation with God.