We often make reference to the example of Jesus in the gospels and this serves to emphasize many things, but one is particularly important. A careful (some might say even a cursory) reading of the New Testament will leave no reasonably open reader in any doubt that every Christian should ...

People differ from one another in almost every possible respect. Where speaking is concerned, some have a relatively a “tight” tongue, in the sense that they do not easily speak out against something in a critical or wounding way when a thing is done or said to them. Other have a “loos...

Scripture repeatedly refers to that form of prayer called praise as a sacrifice. But it also refers to it as other, seemly contradictory things. For example, in a particularly important part of the Bible we read:

For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking ...

The Difference Between Love And Emotion Very often people confuse love and emotion. They are not the same, although there is a connection, because love is the highest expression of which we are capable, and it would be strange, therefore, if our emotions were not affected in some ...

Those who were brought up and live in the Yorkshire county of England are used to the idea that people speak their minds — and that they should! Yorkshire people are known for that. So are some other people who have never even seen Yorkshire! Yet all this seems to assume that when ...

As Christians we often hear people telling us of the need to be more like God, perhaps through being more like Jesus, through whom we get our best impression of what God is like. But is it realistic to expect to grow to be like God? Does God actually expect us to be able to become ...

Frank Sinatra made famous the song "I Did It My Way". It has become so famous that sometimes one even hears it played at funerals - even Christian funerals. It is as though people are so loose in their knowledge about what God wants of us that they see having "done it" their o...

We all like to think we know ourselves inside out. What other person can know me as well as I know myself? Well, whatever the answer to that might be, it is not necessarily a very relevant question. The really important question is: how well do I actually know myself?

Knowi...

Our thoughts often lead their own life, in the sense that they can wander and concern themselves with things, and in ways, without any conscious decision on our part. This seems to happen especially when our mind is partly but not wholly occupied with some task or other. Weeding or ironin...

Do you have a tendency to shift the blame for things that seem to turn out wrong? Most of us do! The occurrence of nonhealing in the Christian ministry is no exception. Usually we shift the blame onto the poor individual with whom we are praying.

Look at most books on heal...