How do you usually handle it when you are overwhelmed by difficulties? When was the last time you consciously took the time to express your distress before the Lord?...

Perhaps the Lord has already made clear to you the sphere of your service for Him. Do you then also ask Him to show you anew how you are to do this service?...

Pharaoh's dream has too often been my waking experience. My days of sloth have ruinously destroyed all that I had achieved in times of zealous industry...

I remember when a boy, I used to go to a certain school in New England, where we had a quick-tempered master, who always kept a rattan. It was, "If you don't do this, and don't do that, I'll punish you."...

Mr. John Wannamaker, superintendent of probably one of the largest Sunday schools in the world, had a theory that he would never put a boy out of his school for bad conduct...

J. N. was drawn to confess publicly that Christ was his Savior. He did this in the face of the bitterest opposition of a widowed mother and relations. Then they tried a more subtle plan: they began to please him...