When our service for the Lord becomes so busy that we forget the Lord Himself, it is time to stop everything and seek Him.

Faith deals exclusively with believing God and His Word.

When our service for the Lord becomes so busy that we forget the Lord Himself, it is time to stop everything and seek Him.

For Noah, preaching 120 years without results meant choosing the hard road year after year. Nehemiah, building the wall of Jerusalem, faced constant harassment by enemies from within and without. We cannot honestly, authentically, reasonably and deliberately serve our Lord without our willingness to accept difficulties and inconveniences.

In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have, how selfcontrolled or holy you consider yourself—your heart, if you do not guard it, will break down.

Every Christian in America has some minimal responsibility to get involved in helping the poor brethren in the church in other countries.

All too often, it seems, we're willing to be students of Christianity rather than disciples of Christ.