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How To Make Every Sermon Count
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by Donald S. Whitney
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It's Sunday morning. Your pastor strides to the pulpit. During the sermon, you'll invest 25 to 45 minutes of your time listening to what he has to say. How can you benefit most from this important investment? What can you do to get the most out of the sermon?James 1:21–22 teaches us what to do before, during, and after hearing God's Word: "Therefore
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—Issue #106
July/August 1998
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Fasting: The Misunderstood Discipline
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by Donald S. Whitney
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Quick. What do people who fast look like? What kinds of people come to your mind? Do they appear a bit strange? Are they John the Baptist types? Legalists? Health nuts?Does Jesus come to your mind when you think of fasting and "fasters"? Jesus both practiced and taught fasting, you know. And yet, fasting is the most feared and misunderstood of all the
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—Issue #67
January/February 1992
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Secret Service
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by Donald S. Whitney
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It's Sunday morning worship. The organist plays softly while sedate ushers move through their paces. As an offering plate passes down the row behind you, someone takes a deep breath. TA-DAH!!! A blast of sound jolts the entire congregation. With adrenalin pumping through your system, you pivot in your pew and see a man lowering a trumpet from his lips.
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—Issue #68
March/April 1992
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Fuel for the Fire
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by Donald S. Whitney
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AS USUAL, the work week begins about dawn on Monday. Very little flex time is built into the schedule of showering, dressing, eating, getting the kids ready, and heading out the door. From then on, you spend most of the day on the run. You take the kids to school, run errands, and work around the house or the yard until the very minute you have to get
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—Issue #74
March/April 1993
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10 Questions To Ask To Make Sure You're Still Growing
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by Donald S. Whitney
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One of the early explorers to the North Pole charted his journey hourly to ensure that he stayed on course through the white wasteland. At one point a strange phenomenon began to occur. As he checked his position, his instruments indicated that even though he had been moving northward, he was actually farther south than he had been an hour before. Regardless
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—Issue #97
January/February 1997
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