Reading stories forces us to exercise our empathy and imagination muscles, and that helps us conceive what the Bible depicts or demands, helps us connect with others, helps us illustrate what the text teaches, and...

If Christianity is true, then every argument will, if pursued to the end, lead to Jesus.

connecting” with people who want to make your story part of their story.

I paid the cabman exactly his fare. He received it with an oath; upon which I instantly gave him a tract. If I had presented a pistol at his head, this abandoned wretch could hardly...

Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil’s advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.

Adopt the positive in everything you do, for there will always be positivity there to find, if that is what you seek.

Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.

There is little taste for ‘high culture’ especially in Evangelicalism, where the tendency has long been toward translation – making things accessible to the largest number of people.

In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels.

My understanding from the Word of God is that I am supposed to preach for the maturation of the believer with a view that lost people are there.

Friendship evangelism’ is the freedom to Agape others without an agenda (Young).”~R. Alan Woods [2013]

The hope that we have in Christ is so gloriously wonderful, why would we ever keep it to ourselves? When we refuse to communicate the Gospel there is nothing more cruel or selfish in all...

Liberals and conservatives tend to view the economy in purely materialistic terms. They make growth, security, and prosperity ends in themselves. They exalt enlightened self-interest. They tell us that productive work is the fundamental source...

You’ve got to be driven to become successful.

Sceptics are persuaded by a good reputation, for it is an unspoken statement of proof.

We should be more concerned with reaching the lost than pampering the saved.

If we who self-designate ourselves with terms like “Catholic,” “Orthodox,” “Protestant,” “Evangelical,” “Charismatic,” “Pentecostal” and others would fully surrender ourselves to The Holy Spirit, we could stop focusing on the secondary words we use to...

Cop-out excuses and catch-phrase dismissals can only work so long before the holes in the religious argument cannot be ignored any longer.

Because cultures and languages are constantly changing and because the apostolic testimony must be attested in ever-new circumstances, it is a necessary feature of the apostolic tradition that it both guard the original testimony and...

If we really believe the gospel we proclaim, we’ll be honest about our own beauty and brokenness, and the beautiful broken One will make himself known to our neighbors through the chinks in our armor...

That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever

Sometimes, if you get too close to a subject you can miss what’s most important.

The mission that God has given us is a highly relational mission. Jesus said, “As the Father has sent me, I am sending you” John 20:21. Jesus came into this world, lived in obscurity for...

While the United States is becoming the most culturally diverse nation in the world, less than 5.5% of Christian congregations are multiethnic.

Our responsibility has never been to moralize the unconverted; it’s to convert the immoral. Our responsibility is redemptive, not political. We do not have a moral agenda; we have a redemptive agenda. We can’t reform...

Not called!’ did you say?’Not heard the call,’ I think you should say.Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put...

People debate over whether or not there is a literal Hell, in the literal sense often described as fire and eternal torture, which, to many, seems to be too harsh a punishment. If men really...

Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare.

There can be no success in sales without tenacity.

In an era of mass media, it is easy to believe that the more eyeballs, the more impact. But radio, television, and tracts accounted for a combined total of less than one-half of 1% of...

If we do not question well then those who follow behind will almost certainly question badly. And if we are not confidently proclaiming the shape of our faith, then our faith will be of little...

Beginning with sin instead of creation is like trying to read a book by opening it in the middle: You don’t know the characters and can’t make sense of the plot.

A clear picture of that which God wants for us is rarely clearly articulated”.~R. Alan Woods [2012]

And this presence of the Spirit will enlighten not only yellow skin people or white skin people but even black skin people. I believe in the last days the Spirit of God will be poured...

I think the failure of The American church to affirm the goodness of civilizational life is our greatest failing today.

You listen like an amateur and fool yourself into believing it is enough when it is not.

It saddens me to note that there will always be con artists and charlatans in the world. Men who aim to fool the public by clothing themselves in the robes of experts.

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the misery of unevangelized, uneducated, unmedicated, and unfed millions. The evidence that many professing...

Can you imagine doing ministry the last five hundred years and getting away with ‘Sorry, I don’t do books’? Can you imagine doing ministry in the next five years and getting away with ‘Sorry, I...

It’s no fun to think about infinity and no cinche to write about it. Again, it helps to look for some human link.

I am certain that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, nor any other creature can separate us from the love of God,” precisely because he lived on the far side of the resurrection.

Be willing to be unliked and ridiculed in order to speak the words of the One who matters most.

Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.

It is your duty to save these prospects from that disappointment. Every potential customer, who misses out on what you have to offer, due to your lack of zeal or passion, every prospect who ends...

As the church get older and older it becomes harder to keep evangelism on the front burner because of all the competing issues that keeps pushing it back.

You can’t teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

There is no separation between the gospel and culture, between how we live in society and how we live in our private lives, between the lordship of Jesus inside the four walls of a church...

Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling a man with a broken leg to get up and run a race.

Any amount of theology can be smuggled into people’s minds under cover of romance without them knowing it.

In soliciting donations from his flock, a preacher may promise eternal life in a celestial city whose streets are paved with gold, and that’s none of the law’s business. But if he promises an annual...