Yes, He is Amazing
By B.J. Funk - The Holy Spirit is so amazing! He is always fulfilling his main purpose of pointing to Jesus. As Oswald Chambers says, “The Holy Spirit is the One who makes real in you all that Jesus did for you.” I am rejuvenated as I dive into my many resources on...
Losing the Gospel
By Thomas Lambrecht - What does it mean to be saved? How is one saved? These questions are at the heart of the Gospel. John Wesley famously wrote, "I am a spirit come from God and returning to God; just hovering over the great gulf, till a few moments hence I am no...
Archive: The Barefoot Storyteller
Archive: The Barefoot Storyteller By Sara L. Anderson The storyteller paces across the stage on bare feet in apparel appropriate for a Christmas-pageant shepherd or a modem Bedouin. A cherubic grin and mischievous twinkle in his eyes punctuate a significant part of...
What Dietrich Bonhoeffer Might Say To The United Methodist Church
Archive: What Dietrich Bonhoeffer Might Say To The United Methodist Church By Bishop Ole Borgen (1925-2009) January/February 1990 Good News It was German theologian and church leader Dietrich Bonhoeffer who first coined the terms “costly grace” and “cheap grace” in...
Archive: The Healing Graces Of Hospitality
Archive: The Healing Graces Of Hospitality How can ministers' wounds become sources of healing? On the one hand no minister can keep his own experience of life hidden from those he wants to help. Nor should he want to keep it hidden. But a minister who talks in the...
Archive: Fatal Attraction Part II
Archive: Fatal Attraction Part II The Seductive Promises of Socialism Have Betrayed the Poor By Clark H. Pinnock (In Part I Pinnock expressed concern for how our Christian concern for the poor has been unwisely routed along the tracks of collectivist economics. If we...
Archive: All But Martyred
Archive: All But Martyred By Dierdra DeVries Moran He didn’t even flinch. The tension—the fear—had so gripped him that when he looked back into the eyes of the 18 guerillas aiming their submachine guns at him he didn’t even move a muscle. His friend Camilo was among...
Archive: Our Embarrassing Leftward Tilt
Archive: Our Embarrassing Leftward Tilt By Steve Beard In our focus on political systems, we have been more pathetic than prophetic. For Western Christians who have worked long and diligently on behalf of persecuted believers in the Eastern bloc, recent developments...
