Healing for husband and me. For husband to become Christian.

We are ambassadors for Christ; certain that God is appealing through us, we plead on Christ’s behalf: “Be reconciled to God.” 2 Corinthians 5:20 No matter how different the rest of our challenges may be, every believer can count on a multitude of challenges to forgive. Remember, God’s primary agenda...

A certain spirit attaches itself to the human voice. A voice may be passionate or cold, whining or demanding, timid or confident, coaxing or commanding. This is not merely a matter of sounds but also a matter of attitudes or personal characteristics that become tangibly present in the voice. The...

Sin is a disease. It is lawlessness. It is rebellion. It is transgression—but it is also a wasting of the most precious of all treasures on earth. The man who dies out of Christ is said to be lost, and hardly a word in the English tongue expresses his condition...

The Bible is full of people who misread the signs of God’s presence. There are many examples to choose from. Eli missed God’s work in Hannah (1 Sam. 1); Naaman didn’t recognize God’s work to heal him (2 Kings 5); and the Jews didn’t recognize God’s work in and through...

I’m a bit ashamed to say this, but in my high-school years I went door-to-door selling pictures of Jesus. Big prints, glossy and bright, two by three feet in size. I sold them for a margin of what they would have gone for in a decorating store or Christian bookshop....

Every activity now being carried on in the name of Christ must meet the last supreme test: Does it have biblical authority back of it? Is it according to the letter and the spirit of the Scripture? Is its spiritual content divinely given? That it succeeds proves nothing. That it...

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.”–Eccles. 3:1. DO NOT be in too great a hurry. There is time for everything that has to be done. He who gave you your life-work has given you just enough time to do it...

The Bible doesn’t offer a sanitized version of life or our reactions to it. Dark, shocking, and painful stories abound. Scripture shows us people who think, act, plan, decide, and speak just like we do. If the Bible left out these real-life stories of murder, rape, famine, disease, judgment, depression,...

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22-23 Through his word Christ removes the heart and mind’s old routines of thought, feeling, action, imagination, conceptualization, belief, inference and puts in their place something else: his thoughts, his attitudes, his...