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An interviewer for World Magazine asked John Piper if he thought Christians should talk to the public about Natural Law instead of God to keep from alienating some listeners. Piper answered, “It certainly would be self-defeating for me to leave that (God or more specifically Jesus) out, because my calling…

Difficult Evangelism A very zealous soul-winning young preacher came upon a farmer mending a fence along the roadside. This preacher was concerned about the farmer’s soul so he pulled over and asked the man, “Are you laboring in the vineyard of the Lord my good man?” Not even looking at the preacher…

"The Baptists don't have a Pope, and nobody is in charge, and they seem to be going in all directions at once with no one knowing what anyone else is doing. And then, one day, you wake up to see that there is a Baptist at every corner, a Baptist behind every tree, a Baptist church or school on every…

The great evangelist D. L. Moody was once asked, “How many converts did you have last night.” He answered, “Two and one-half.” “You mean two adults and a child?” “No,” he replied. “Two children and one adult.” A child converted is an entire life converted

Some time ago there was a display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. It featured a checkerboard with one grain of wheat on the first square, two grains on the second square, four on the third, then eight, sixteen, thirty-two, sixty-four, and so on. At the end of the board there were so…

I ran across a video as I was looking through some illustrations for this message. It came from, of all places, the Chicago Bears website. It’s a clip from their rookie training camp. One of the videos shows Coach Lovie Smith’s orientation talk to the rookie class. Of course, the biggest thing on each…

One of the most moving and incredible accounts of suffering filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions is found in Sergei Kourdakov’s autobiography, The Persecutor. Kourdakov was commissioned by the Russian secret police to raid prayer gatherings and persecute believers with extraordinary brutality.…

George Otis Jr. shocked many at the second Lausanne Congress of World Evangelization in Manila in 1989 when he asked, “Is our failure to thrive in Muslim countries owing to the absence of martyrs? Can a covert church grow in strength? Does a young church need martyr models?” Fittingly, he concludes his…

Brother Andrew, who heads a ministry called Open Doors and who is most famous for his 1967 book, God’s Smuggler, describes Christ’s call in the mid-1990s like this: There’s not one door in the world closed where you want to witness for Jesus.… Show me a closed door and I will tell you how you can get…

James Bakker discovered that. This is a picture of Jim Bakker, not the televangelist, the diplomat. He was the Secretary of State under Bush and Reagan. Jim is a lawyer form Houston, Texas, an Episcopalian who knew some things about the Bible. But by his own testimony, He said he never really paid much…

There are countless examples in our own day of choosing to suffer for the purpose of Colossians 1:24—to fill up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions by presenting them to others through suffering.16 In late 1995, as I was working on the second edition of this book, a missionary letter describing such…

Some Houston-area residents received a surprise recently, and the discovery "appalled and offended" some. A resident of the area -- who asked to remain anonymous -- made the discovery. She said she found a white plastic bag hanging on her door, and inside was an English copy of the Koran along with a…

Maybe this story will show you what I mean. Imagine for a moment that you are on a cruise in the Carribean. (Kind of sounds good right now, given the temperatures we’ve been having around here!) All of sudden, in the middle of the night you hear a huge explosion. You leap up and get your clothes on as…

Brother Andrew, who heads a ministry called Open Doors and who is most famous for his 1967 book, God’s Smuggler, describes Christ’s call in the mid-1990s like this: There’s not one door in the world closed where you want to witness for Jesus.… Show me a closed door and I will tell you how you can get…

On December 4, 1857, David Livingstone, the great pioneer missionary to Africa, made a stirring appeal to the students of Cambridge University, showing that he had learned through years of experience what Jesus tried to teach Peter: For my own part, I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed…

In 1958 John Stott was leading a university outreach in Sydney, Australia. The day before the final meeting, Stott received word that his father had passed away. In addition to his grief, Stott was also starting to lose his voice. It was late afternoon and within a few hours the final meeting would take…

That’s what William Borden did. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, or perhaps you might say a golden calf in his back yard. He was heir to the Borden dairy estate and, because of this, was a millionaire by the age of 21. As you can imagine, he went to Yale for his education. But William was…

December 13, 2010 Change usually happens slowly in the Church. But a review of the past year's research conducted by the Barna Group provides a time-lapse portrayal of how the religious environment in the U.S. is morphing into something new. Analyzing insights drawn from more than 5,000 non-proprietary…

God’s last command is our first priority.—Dr. Don Sisk Roger Simms was hitchhiking his way home after serving overseas in the war. Flashing the hitchhiking sign to the oncoming car, he hopped in when the car stopped. “Going home for keeps?” “Sure am,” Roger responded. “Well, you're in luck if you're…

The reason I am so excited about this is because I have seen it work. It was just before Christmas of 2008 when I looked at my office phone and realized I had a message. I dialed in and listened. On the other end of the line there was a voice that said, “Hello, This is Gordon. I’d like to come by and…

John Hyde, better known as “Praying Hyde,” led a life of incredibly intense prayer as a missionary to India at the turn of the century. Some thought him morose. But a story about him reveals the true spirit behind his life of sacrificial prayer. A worldly lady once thought she would have a little fun…

Evangelism Takes Time Evangelism, like sanctification, takes time. Therefore, we must take the time it takes. —Earl Palmer [1] ---- [1] Growing Your Church Through Evangelism and Outreach. 1st ed. Nashville. Tenn. : Moorings, 1996 (Library of Christian Leadership), S. 11

Last Monday, Wanda Murfin sent a note from Silverhill, Alabama, asking, "Did this happen? I read about the revival in New Orleans with Billy and Franklin Graham, but somehow I must have missed this." She forwarded an internet article showing photos of Billy Graham and a French Quarter scene. The reporter…

Joe Stowell writes It was six o'clock in the morning, and I had just finished my early run. As I passed the local Starbucks, I decided to stop in and get a couple cups of our favorite lattes and take them home to [my wife], who would be waking up. Since the café had just opened, there was only one other…

One pastor writes, Two weeks after 9/11, I was in Queens, New York, training church planters. Every night I walked down to a local Irish Pub to eat dinner with some friends. A waitress named Fiona not only served us well, but seemed curious about our faith and what we were teaching pastors. Each evening…