When God speaks, do you recognize his voice? My friend Roy tells a fascinating story about a trip to Palestine some years back. One afternoon, he stood on a ridge overlooking a long, narrow gorge. Below him, the gorge opened…
How many Christians have missed a chance for evangelism because they were ashamed of talking about Jesus? Too often we are guilty of “being ashamed of the gospel of Christ.” We’re embarrassed about bearing witness for fear that we might be…
Without a purpose for your life or ministry, you will have a lot of activity with little progress. Nestled in the suburbs of San Jose, California, is an interesting tourist attraction: an estate built by the heir of the Winchester rifle fortune….
What you truly believe is shown more through your actions than your words. In college I was asked to prepare a lesson to teach to my speech class. We were graded on our creativity and ability to drive home a…
Does our busyness negatively impact our children? In the “Ask the Children” survey, researcher Ellen Galinsky interviewed more than a thousand children in grades three through twelve and asked parents to guess how kids would respond. One key question asked…
If we don’t make a habit of tithing when we are poor, would we really tithe if we were rich? In his book The Little Red Book of Wisdom, author Mark DeMoss tells a story about John D. Rockefeller. The…
Since the world is broken, can God really exist? A woman I know named Sheryl went to a salon to have her nails manicured. As the beautician began to work, they began to have a good conversation about many subjects….
God does not love us based on our performance; he loves us based on our position as his children. Since Charisse was about six months old, I’ve made it a weekly habit to allow Lucretia to sleep in while I…
Have you lifted your hopes and dreams to God in prayer? 1931 was a long and boring year. The stock market crash of 1929 plunged America into the depths of the Great Depression, and most businesses struggled to stay afloat….