Whatever is given to Christ is immediately touched with immortality.
We see that the world seeks happiness instead of holiness. Therefore, we assume we should do the opposite. But we’re wrong.
We don’t believe ‘in the power of prayer,’ but in our all-powerful God who empowers our inherently powerless prayers. —Burk Parsons The
We cannot expect God to bless and honor our efforts to help the needy if part of our help includes distributing chemicals and devices that may kill children who belong not to us, but to them, and abov...
Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving.
The vermin explain their sin with sanctimonious language like, We've prayed about it and sought counsel, and we feel it's the right thing to do. Don't let it down on them that to the Enemy what they f...
The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. —Louis Pasteur
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (NIV) What does Scripture mean when it tells us to fix our eyes on what w...
Sin and death and suffering and war and poverty are not natural—they are the devastating results of our rebellion against God. We long for a return to Paradise—a perfect world, without the corruption...
Shouldn't we just admit the obvious--that the New Testament call to discipleship, compassion, and giving leaves no room for the way many of us are thinking and living? Is it time to get beyond the the...
She was home (in Heaven). She was with the Person she was made for, in the place that was made for her.
Most of us find it very difficult to want Heaven at all—except in so far as Heaven means meeting again our friends who have died. One reason for this difficulty is that we have not been trained: our w...
It is no coincidence that the first two chapters of the Bible (Genesis 1–2) begin with the creation of the heavens and the earth and the last two chapters (Revelation 21–22) begin with the re-creation...
Imagine you're alive at the end of the Civil War. You're living in the South, but you're a Northerner. You plan to move home as soon as the war's over. While in the South you've accumulated lots of Co...
If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next.
He opened the first letter, No Dear Mr. Woods. It was a page full of profanities. There was something oddly refreshing about honest, to-the-point hate mail. No hypocrisy and forced politeness. Too man...
Emily peered at him and frowned, then began to dance on the grass. Okay, Daddy, Emily said. When you’re ready to dance with me, this is what you do. First, you put your right hand around my waist like...
Wisdom begins with the humility to say there’s a great deal I don’t understand.
Yes, Satan rebelled. Yes, Adam and Eve freely chose sin, and with it death and suffering. And yes, the all-powerful, happy God could have intervened to prevent those choices. If that intervention woul...
When we become proud, we operate outside the grace God only gives to the humble. Humility preserves us; pride destroys us.