Built-In Character

There was a family in the San Francisco Bay area that grew up with commitment. The son's name was David Kraft. His father was a pastor, a godly pastor ...

Worship When You Feel Weary

"I can't do it!" I cried to God. "I can't handle the housework, my work, the loneliness of a husband who works so much." Then ...

Living Against the Grain

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion. It is easy in solitude to live after one's own. But the great man is he who, in the ...

True Strength

Do you remember Gayle Sayers and Brian Piccolo, the star backs for the Chicago Bears? One was a black man; one was a white man. They created quite a sensation ...

Only Follow Christ

We want to evangelize like D. L. Moody, pray like George Mueller, preach like Charles Swindoll, counsel like James Dobson, have her administrative abilities ...

Inner Strength Needed

If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.

Our Weakness, His Strength

The folklore surrounding Poland's famous concert pianist and prime minister, Ignace Paderewski, includes this story, which though fictional provides ...

Time to Pray

We have had instruction until we are hardened; it is now time for us to pray.

Power from the Story

Sometimes telling a story has as much effect on the teller as it does the listeners. Martin Buber, the Jewish philosopher, recalls:

"My grandfather ...

Fortified Within

There are two ways of handling pressure. One is illustrated by a bathysphere, the miniature submarine used to explore the ocean in places so deep that ...