The Gift of Purpose-Filled Living

A few years ago I was working at an elementary-aged camp. It had rained a couple of days in a row, and finally the sun was shining, but it was still ...

A Life Worth Dying for

Gene Vance Jr. lived two distinctly different lives. In one life, he was devoted cyclist who worked in bicycle shop; he was a college student, he was ...

Share Your Faith

One afternoon I overheard a conversation between two people in a hotel lobby. Actually, it wasn't a conversation. It was a monologue. Two women were ...

Be Ready to Be Used By God

Today we're beginning a three part series called "How to Share Your Faith." It's about witnessing, evangelism, telling others about Jesus—how do ...

How to Talk to Others About Jesus

We're in the second week of our series called "How to Share Your Faith." Today's message is: "How to Talk to Others About Jesus." Last week, if you'll ...

The Most Crucial Element in Witnessing

In the early 1980's one of the highlights of the academic year at the University of Oklahoma was when Sister Cindy came to town. Sister Cindy was a ...

Despise Not These Little Ones

I thought it would be good for us to consider this very important mission field and responsibility the Lord Jesus has given to his church, that of reaching ...

Keeping the Right Company

It is often said that you can tell what a person is like by the company he keeps. Look at his friends, and from them you can deduce what his character ...

What About Sudden Conversion?

I am very intrigued by the new invention that is now being foisted upon some parts of the American people, whereby on closed-circuit television they ...

Encounter: The Vision of Witnessing

Introduction

Several years ago, I was enjoying a day of recreation on a ski slope in central Wisconsin. While other friends from the church had gone ...

Costly Compassion

"You deserve compensation for your suffering," according to some lawyers' ads on television these days. "If you hit your hand on a doorpost; if you ...

Making More Disciples

The abbot of the monastery called the novice into his office and instructed him to give the homily at the next morning's chapel. Well, the novice ...

God the Evangelist

We have three children. Our oldest is Tara. When Tara was years of age, as our firstborn, we wanted to let her learn everything on her own. One day I ...

Wanted: Winners

Illustration: Dr. Benjamin Rush was a founding father of the United States. He was a signer of our Declaration of Independence. Dr. Rush was also one ...

Meet the Jesus I know

Illustration: You've heard the expression, "Something got lost in translation." I don't know if you've seen the new machines they've can do this on the ...

Spreading Power Through Persecution

On January 9, 1985, a Congregational pastor in Bulgaria named Christo Kuleczef, was arrested and put in jail. His crime was preaching in his church, just ...