The Great Divide

What is a mature Christian? Assuming that evangelistic concern is a vital part of maturity and discipleship, there was one troubling tendency in the statistics: ...

Too Well-Versed?

Before the lunch hour rush at the restaurant where I waitress, I recited a memory verse to myself--(Galatians 2:20), "I have been crucified with ...

Pat Collins: Purity in the Personals

In the May 18, 1994, Calgary Sun business personals, one small ad stood out amidst such services as Erotica Video Exchange and Live XXX Shows and videos. ...

Pass the Torch

Saving knowledge is diffused over the earth, not like sunlight but like torchlight, which is passed from hand to hand.

Chasing Butterflies

Clifton Fadiman, in The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes, tells a story about Valdimir Nabokov, the Russian-born novelist who achieved popular success ...

All Things to All People

The Oakland, California, police force recently unveiled its first "lowrider" police car. The vehicle has the standard logo, lights, and siren, ...

Hidden Treasure

When I was in high school, I worked for a time at an armored-car company, Brinks Armored Co. in San Bernardino, California. My job was to take care of ...

Clear Vision

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one ...

Motivation for Missions

One of the first western missionaries, Leonard Dober (1706-1766), gave this as his motivation for missions:

Since it is desired of me to make known my ...

Unsaved Americans

The fact that nine in ten Americans are not committed Christians is worthy of concern.