Good Winners

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

A Christmas Revolution

It was on Christmas Eve, after a Romanian church had gathered for candlelight service, that the Communist soldiers came to take the pastor. The people ...

When Christianity Triumphed

The Christians' triumph over the pagan Empire brought its own problems.

Constantine's imperial patronage did, of course, assure Christianity's ...

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 ...

Real Meaning in the Cross

[Somehow] we never see God in failure, but only in success--a strange attitude for people who have the cross as the center of their faith.

Sacrificial Living's Payoff

God's wisdom is not first counsel on how to practice family values or to use common sense. It is the wisdom of His plan of grace, the wisdom of the ...

A Cross and Effect Relationship

The relationship between the obedience of God's people and the triumph of God's cause is not a relationship of cause and effect but one of cross ...

The Failure of Immediate Victory

There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

Win or Lose, He Didn't Stay Down

The movie Chariots of Fire was the true story of Eric Liddell, a man who ran for Scotland, then went on to become a missionary. You may recall that he ...

Staying Above the Water

The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.