1. 01/01/2015 Strachan paints the picture of a man who was sold out to the gospel that saved him from himself and dedicated to proclaiming it to the broken world that he knew all too well. He uses the accomplishments of this hero of the faith to stir evangelicals to action in the public square, confronting the...
  2. 01/01/2014 This profound little book encourages us to set aside our limited expectations, and to fall in line with God's. Human beings like organization, structures, plans; God grows people. We ask for a budget; God offers us love. If you are aiming at relationship rather than performance, how do you...
  3. 20/01/2009 Is our faith just about going to church, studying the Bible and avoiding the most serious sins-or does God expect more? Have we embraced the whole gospel or a gospel with a hole in it? Ten years ago, Rich Stearns came face-to-face with that question as he sat in amud hut in Rakai, Uganda,...
  4. 01/01/2003 More than a decade ago, Jerry Sittser prayed for the protection of his family, yet three of his loved ones---his daughter, his wife, and his mother---died in an automobile accident. What went wrong? 'Why wasn't my prayer answered?' he asks. 'It is no longer an abstract question to me. What should...
  5. 01/01/2003 John Piper writes,"I will tell you what a tragedy is. I will show you how to wasteyour life. Consider this story from the February 1998 Reader's Digest: A couple 'took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta Gorda,...
  6. 01/01/2017 When you come to the end of your days, you will not measure your life based on success and failures. All of those will eventually blur together into a single memory called “life.” What will give you solace is a life with nothing left undone. One that’s been lived with relentless ambition, a heart...