Consider the example of Chang Ta Pao, an illiterate Chinese peasant who became a leader in the Red Guard, the brutal youth army that rose up in response to Mao's teachings. Chang's story is told by Niu-Niu, a victim of Mao's Cultural Revolution. She was only a child...
John 3:21 "But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."One of the greatest privileges in ministry is that you get to meet some really good people. Over the years, I've come across...
For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Romans 7:19Several years ago, the London Transit Authority had a problem.Customers were complaining their bus wasn't stopping to pick them up. When they were questioned, the...
Matthew 7:12 - So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. (NIV)One Sunday morning, just after I arrived at church, a young lady came in and sat in a pew near the front. I saw that she was deeply...
Ephesians 4:4-6 - There is one body and one Spirit-just as you were called to one hope when you were called-one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. NIVI enjoy word puzzles. One of the puzzles I enjoy the...
"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me." (John...
"For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them." Ephesians 2:10I remember a Sunday when, while I was preaching, a little child managed to escape from his parents who were sitting in the...