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The Greatest Business on...

We are in the greatest business on earth and God has something for us to do. We are not here just to occupy time and space and to give our money. We are to be his workers. I’m not worried about anybody becoming a fanatic. It is easier to cool off a fanatic than it is to resurrect the dead! We need some people with that holy fire inside of them. There is nothing...

Many Degrees and So Littl...

Education is of no avail if the fire goes out. Vance Havner was once talking about the bent toward education, and the coldness that sometimes goes with it when there is a lack of spiritual fire in the church. He said that there never has been a time when the church had so many degrees and so little temperature. We need to be sure that with all of our degrees that the...

How People Drift Away

I’ve discovered that people usually just drift away from Christ. People are like sheep. Sheep don’t get wild, but sheep do wander. What do you say when you go after these people? Well, you don’t hound them. You just go to visit them, to be friendly with them. To have a cup of coffee with them and let them know that you are interested. When the time c...

Out of Joint with Each Ot...

God left Titus in Crete because he wanted to use him as his instrument to change the world. Paul tells Titus that he was left in Crete to “set in order” things that were wanting. The term set in order is a medical term that means to “set in joint.” It describes what a doctor does when you go to him with a broken bone. Because the parts of that...

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