“Our longest sorrows have a close, and there is a bottom to the profoundest depths of our misery. Our winters shall not frown forever;...

One of the most difficult things to remember and believe during the dark night of the soul is that "God loves you". And yet, my unbelief...

Joseph Damien was a missionary in the nineteenth century who ministered to people with leprosy on the island of Molokai, Hawaii. Those...

This Word reminds us that there is only one Eternal City. As the barbarians scaled the walls of his beloved city, Augustine wept and...

Recently I attended a concert at our county fair by a country singer who has been recording hits for twenty-five years. Her band was...

You will find in the Psalms that there is not a single emotion which you feel which the Lord Himself has not given us the words to...

I stood, called my text, and began to preach. There was a weird response by the congregation. Something strange was happening, but I ...

“When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy. Those...

“In speaking of this desire for our own far off country, which we find in ourselves even now, I feel a certain shyness. I am almost...

“To be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son— it seems impossible, a...

“‘What shall we do?’ is the deep heart cry of every man who suddenly realizes that he is a usurper and sits on a stolen throne. However...

“The picture of a nervous, ingratiating God fawning over men to win their favor is not a pleasant one; yet if we look at the popular ...

“To be specific, the self-sins are these: self-righteousness, self-pity, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-admiration, self-love,...

The Triumph of Infidelity Here stood Hypocrisy, in sober brown, His sabbath face all sorrow'd with a frown. A dismal tale he told of...

Remember again that the ministry you are doing is never just shaped by your gifts, knowledge, skill, and experience. It is always also...

In acknowledging the brokenness of the world where you live and minister, you do not want to give way to spiritual environmentalism in...

Not only should we actively battle for the gospel as the fundamental paradigm for every ministry of the church, but we must also fight...

Colossians 3 specifically defines the nature of the essential private ministry of the Word that is the calling of the body of Christ. In...

It is clear from examining Scripture that leadership fruitfulness or failure is seldom only about knowledge, strategy, skill, and...

We must be careful how we define ministry readiness and spiritual maturity. There is a danger of thinking that the well-educated and...

“I sometimes think that the prayers of believers afford a stronger proof of a depraved nature, than even the profaneness of those who...

Isaiah 55, one of the Bible’s most beautiful offers of grace, confronts us right at this point: For as the rain and the snow come down...

There are many pastors who have inserted themselves into a spiritual category that doesn’t exist. Like me, they think they are someone...

Background The "Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy" was produced at an international Summit Conference of evangelical leaders, held...

“God loves the church with a love too deep for human imagination: He loves her with all His infinite heart… You may fear that the Lord...

“I feel strongly, with you, that there was something more than a physical pleasure in those youthful activities. Even now, at my age, do...

“When a newspaper posed the question, ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ the Catholic thinker G. K. Chesterton reputedly wrote a brief letter...

“Happiness is not to be found by dancing after any heathen god of love. Happiness is found by looking up to where a more terrible but a...

“God gives you Christ as the foundation of your marriage. ‘Welcome one another, therefore, as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of...

The Scripture teaches that the heart is the control center for life. A person’s life is a reflection of his heart. Proverbs 4:23 states...

“A lifestyle of unforgiveness is rooted in the sin of forgetfulness. We forget that there is not a day in our lives that we do not need...

“Paul’s words here endorse the consistent biblical testimony that idolatry is inexcusable. Scripture never condones idolatry on the...

“The work of redemption which the gospel makes known, above all things, affords motives to love. For that work was the most glorious and...