Chuck Colson was a top aide to Richard Nixon, and was indicted and sent to prison for his part in the Watergate cover-up. Through that crisis he came to faith in Christ, and later began a ministry to those in prison. He has ministered to prisoners all over the world. Many years ago, he was …
TRUTH DECAY: THE CONSEQUENCES AND CHALLENGE
Dr. Rufus Fears is a professor of classic history, and he relates that just prior to the end of the Athenian empire at the hands of the Spartans the philosophers and people of Athens had arrived at the idea that there was no absolute truth. This is currently the dominant note of our Postmodern culture. …
SOME SUBTLE WAYS WE WITHDRAW FROM GOD
Money either is a master or a servant. How we invest our resources reveals our true values.
BEING HELD HOSTAGE TO LIES AND THEIR OUTCOMES
The great Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, speaking of his country’s spiritual demise, …’If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some sixty millions of our people, I could not put it more bluntly than to repeat: ‘Men have forgotten God; that’s why …
A LOST GENERATION: WHAT WILL OUR RESPONSE BE?
One of the great temptations in the Christian life is to know what to do and then ignore it. Hypocrisy is always a present danger. We’re not talking about never making mistakes or falling short. Hypocrisy is an attitude of false security and an indifference toward behaving in an ethical and moral manner. Hypocrisy is …
FINDING OUR WAY IN THE CROSSROADS OF LIFE
One of God’s great expressions of mercy toward us is to address issues in our lives. We find this right from the very beginning in the story of Cain and Abel in which Abel’s offering to God is accepted while Cain’s offering is rejected. The response of Cain is very enlightening and may give us …
THE KIND OF LIFE GOD IS LOOKING FOR
Every Christmas, a classic movie is replayed, entitled, ‘It’s a Wonderful Life.,’ The story’s theme is on the value of a life. The central character, George Bailey, played by James Stewart, is an optimistic person who plans after he graduates to leave his little town and see the world, but his plans change when he …
MAKING OUR WAY TOWARD WHOLENESS
William Wilberforce is primarily remembered as the British Member of Parliament that advanced the cause against slavery, and eventually saw the end to that terrible abuse of humanity. What many may not know is that Wilberforce was a devout Christian. [He] knew the God of the universe as a loving Person who had intervened in …
LEAVING GLOOMINESS BEHIND AND LIVING IN ANTICIPATED HOPE
Why can’t we get past the quagmire of distress and despair when we are experiencing life’s great disappointments? Where does hope come from? The short answer is God, but why do we so often settle for gloom and doom? For the vast amount of time, the history of Israel and Judah were threatened or subjugated …
GOD’S RESPONSE TO OUR MOST PAINFUL MOMENTS!
Times of crisis, disappointments, rejection, and various other sorrows invade our lives. They can cause us to ask the question; ‘If God is so loving and good, why this loss, this pain, and struggle in my life? The atheist will answer cynically that it is because there is no God. But the Christmas story is …