Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.

Jesus is the perfect name!He who put away his fame!And persecuted in shame!That you will never be the same!It’s because of you and I He came!Believe him or have yourself to blame!In the book of...

Tell your good news as an evangelist would. Do so with a passion driven by a need to help and solve problems that some people didn’t even know they had.

Every church has a marketing plan! The only difference is that some are better than others! When I think of marketing I think of building a relationship with those within reach of your ministry who...

I think the church has done a pretty good job at reaching the “down and outers” but not a good job at reaching the “up and outers.” I feel like one of my mandates is...

So you can’t demand the broken to live as if they were whole. Discipline is not the issue; apply discipline and you’ll make it worse. What is needed is healing.

We best defend the Lord’s glory by speaking first TO Him about unbelieving men rather than speaking first ABOUT Him to unbelieving men.

before the nations.” We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.

For wordsmiths and masters of words, without necessarily being harsh with words, the words have a tendency to shoot straight to the hearts of people, and this either deeply touches them or deeply angers them....

Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.

His belief is so passionate that it fills him with the burning desire to share his fabulous news with anyone who will listen. He is concerned that it is us that might be missing out,...

the blasé religiosity of most…teenagers is not the result of poor communication but the result of excellent communication of a watered-down gospel so devoid of God’s self-giving love in Jesus Christ, so immune to the...

Faith in Christ leaped from person to person like some divine epidemic, not of disease but of spiritual health.

Conversions were easy, but making full-time disciples was hard.

Much of modern preaching is anaemic, with the life-blood of God’s nature absent from the message. Evangelists centre their message upon the man. Man has sinned and missed a great blessing. If man wants to...

When you are posessed by evil spirits, it is crafty manipulations that you follow; but when you are posessed by the Holy Spirit of God, it is wise discretions you pursue!

Like an ant, I will find my way round any obstacle. Like a child, I will persevere with pinpoint focus.

How we feel about those we give our business to is of vital importance.

Jesus told us to make disciples, not decisions.

In the evangelical world, prying can be an indicator of compassion.

The classical man’s worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man’s worst fear is just death

They (evangelicals)could enrich their faith (with C.S. Lewis) without diluting it, and engage secular culture in ways other than through reasoned argument. Lewis allowed his readers to grasp and benefit from the importance of images...

Reform suggests that you have already been solidified into a self. You were not. You were barely fifteen. You learn that the brain is not fully formed until you’re twenty-five years old, and you wonder,...

People, especially the young, wanted to hear about God and not man.

We want our children to know and believe the one good story. Every other story is a copy or shadow of this one. Some copies of it are quite good and shout the Truth. Others...

I will look the part. I will act the part. I will deliver that which I have promised to deliver.

The mission that Jesus invites us to participate in is primarily a relational one in nature. Our ability to sustain our relationship in a meaningful way will have a direct impact on our missional fruitfulness.

We must be global Christians with a global vision because we serve a global God.

Some Christians believe the harder that one thinks, the colder faith will grow. Augustine grew more brilliant as he grew more pious, more creative as he became more orthodox. His period of heresy was imitative,...

Followers of Jesus do well to spend more time engaging him than explaining him.

Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do not live in cultural centers and work in culture-forging fields such...

The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the...

What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone.

This is how you must be. You must become as evangelical about your promised outcome as he is about his. You must believe that you, and you alone, have the solution to your prospects problems....

Music is the one place in mass media where kids editorialize to kids.

His ally was the age-old, unending human search for truth and security. In the first century as the twenty first, some were devout, some superstitious, others were frankly materialistic, even though in that age they...

Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless;...

It is often out encounter with culture that first reveals to us our own culture.

When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God’s individual call on her doesn’t condemn those in more conventional...

Everything would have been for nothing just because I simply didn’t listen.

What is the true cost of a purchasing decision that goes wrong?

The best ‘apologia’ (defense) of Jesus Following is your life …not talking religion!” ~ gfp ’42©

False conversions are a wart on the face of Christian evangelism.

When I heard of the shady tactics of the Moonies, my initial indignation was modified by empathy. I remembered only too well all the innocuous-sounding “fronts” operated by Evangelicals in order to witness to sinners,...

Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.

I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they’re dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they’re enemies.

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.

Some parents live more like reclusive monks than like first-century Christians who were famous for their love for and service within their cities, cities that in many cases were more overtly wicked than cities found...

In this world of half-jobs and liars, I will prevail.

caught that taught” and that a person’s meaningful involvement in the process is critical to them experiencing the power of the gospel in their lives. This meaningful involvement takes time and persevering love.