Ultimate Freedom

The great spiritual task facing me is to so fully trust that I belong to God that I can be free in the world--free to speak even when my words are not ...

Faith Means Never Having to Ask Directions

All of us have had that experience of driving to some friends' house in an area where we have never been before. Often you've had to drive a long ...

I Can't Afford to Tithe

My 14-year-old son, Joel Porter, has a job this year. He got his first, official paycheck. Boy, was he thrilled. He came home and showed me his paycheck. ...

Outer Turmoil, Inner Calm

Christ's life outwardly was one of the most troubled lives that was ever lived: tempest and tumult, tumult and tempest, the waves breaking over it ...

Research on Communication

"Great Sermon, Pastor, I Didn't Understand a Word!"

J. Scott Armstrong, associate professor of marketing at the University of Pennsylvania, ...

Hardest Thing I've Done

I went to Promise Keepers in Indianapolis, knowing God was going to deal with me in an area I had held on to for over a year. It's tragic to admit, ...

Jehovah Is Still God

Gladys Aylward, missionary to China more than fifty years ago, was forced to flee when the Japanese invaded Yangcheng. But she could not leave her work ...

We Do Not Fight Alone

In the book Healing the Masculine Soul, Gordon Dalbey says that when Jesus refers to the Holy Spirit as the Helper, he uses a Greek word, paraclete, that ...

Take the Hand of God

Many years ago, King George VI of England addressed the British commonwealth on New Year's Eve at a moment in history when the whole world stood on ...

Christianity Is Never Lacking

If people haven't truly put their trust in Christ, they may feel they tried Christianity and found it lacking, when they haven't tried it at all. ...