"While he was still a long distance away, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.” (Luke 5:20) No matter how long I live, I will always be deeply moved by that verse. It tells me all I need to know about the loving heart of my Lord...
Several years ago, my friend Ney Bailey was traveling in a country where Christianity is strictly forbidden. For decades, its citizens have been under the thumb of a hostile, controlling government...
Love can be polarizing. True, pure Christ-like love makes some people angry. Jesus’ love for sinners got Him crucified. Loving your enemies can be dangerous – especially today. Yet loving our enemies is what God calls us to do. Bill Bright wrote about how one man’s story…
“America is faced with the greatest crisis in its history. We are in danger of losing our nation, and our God-given freedoms to those who disdain the God of our nation’s founders. If that should happen, our opportunity to help fulfill the Great Commission throughout the United States and the world could also be lost.” –Bill Bright.
If we are to keep our religious freedoms secure, we would do well to...
Dark and dirty and housing almost seven thousand inmates, the 300-year-old Russian prison was a picture of despair. As Ward approached cell number sixteen, a very small metal flap was unlocked by the guard. Immediately, a face appeared. “The face stunned me,” Ward said...
Frances Green never dreamed she would be invited to the White House. She was eighty-three years old and lived alone in San Francisco on a small, fixed income. One day, to her utter surprise and delight, she received an elegant invitation to come to the White House...
We can trace all our human problems to our view of God- even the problems we're facing today. A contrast in two lives from history illustrates the different outcomes that result from a wrong and a right view of God...
As a man thinketh…
“Every day in every way I am becoming better and better,” declared the French philosopher Emile Coué. But it is said that he committed suicide.
Positive thinking by a nonbeliever without a biblical basis is often an exercise in futility...