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1. God Wants to Put Jonathans in Your Life

A few days ago, I was dreading the upcoming weekend. I didn't want to think about Father's Day—partly because it was the second year since my father had died, and partly because my elderly mother's health ...

Created on 19 June 2019

2. Will We Ever Stop Arguing About Women Preachers?

Two months after violent storms tore through Alabama, another huge tempest is raging there this week—and this one threatens to blow apart the nation's largest Protestant denomination. Representatives of ...

Created on 12 June 2019

3. 8 Ways Global Christianity Is Different From America's Church

This week, I'm on my 132nd international mission trip. I'm traveling in Central Asia with a group of Russian-speaking immigrants who live in the United States. We've been encouraging local Christians in ...

Created on 04 June 2019

4. Don't Settle for Shallow Relationships

I don't like goodbyes, especially on the mission field. If you know me, you know that sometimes I get emotional in airports. Two weeks ago, it was bad when I left Singapore. I had spent two weeks with ...

Created on 28 May 2019

5. Unborn Babies Can't Carry Protest Signs

Thanks to a law passed in January in the state of New York, a woman can have an abortion up until the very moment of childbirth. And when that law was passed, lawmakers threw a party by covering the World ...

Created on 22 May 2019

6. The 10 Biggest Mistakes to Avoid in Mentoring

I just returned from a two-week trip to Singapore, where I preached in eight different churches. I enjoyed every opportunity to speak to crowds, but the most fulfilling part of the journey was not the ...

Created on 15 May 2019

7. Asia's Churches Empower Women—So Should We

This past week, I've been in Singapore, a nation known as "the Antioch of Asia" because of its thriving churches. Some Western ministry leaders come to Singapore to learn the secret of their church growth. ...

Created on 08 May 2019

8. Never Build a Ministry on One Man's Swag

John the Baptist said he was not worthy to untie Jesus' lowly sandals. But in today's hyper-cool, megachurch culture, a preacher's footwear has become very pricey. So pricey, in fact, that a new Instagram ...

Created on 01 May 2019

9. An Inside Report From Sri Lanka's Traumatized Church

While members of Zion Church gathered last Sunday to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, children were meeting for a Sunday school lesson in another part of the building. At one point, their teacher asked ...

Created on 23 April 2019

10. Don't Be So Quick to End Relationships

... ake a decision today to work harder at relationships. Forgive those who hurt you. Be diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit. J. Lee Grady was editor of Charisma for 11 years and now serves as contrib ...

Created on 22 April 2019

11. How Did Jesus Endure the Crucifixion?

When the movie The Passion of the Christ was released 15 years ago, snobbish Hollywood critics mocked it because it offered a realistic depiction of Jesus' torture and death. I know people who couldn't ...

Created on 16 April 2019

12. 8 Ways to Encourage the Flow of the Holy Spirit

I'm grateful for my friend Quentin Beard, who pastors one of the fastest growing churches in South Dakota—Sioux Falls First Assembly. Because Quentin wants his congregation to experience the Holy Spirit, ...

Created on 09 April 2019

13. Are You Dripping With the Spirit's Anointing?

If you could go back in time and visit the tabernacle of Moses, one thing would immediately catch your attention. You would smell the strong fragrance of anointing oil. Everything inside the tent would ...

Created on 02 April 2019

14. How to Stay Renewed in the Spirit—Even in Old Age

This past weekend I preached at the historic Belmont Church in Nashville, Tennessee, a congregation that God used powerfully to spread charismatic renewal across the world in the 1970s. This was the church ...

Created on 26 March 2019

15. Captain Marvel, Women Superheroes and the Church

Some Christians think it's sinful to go to movies. That's not my conviction. While I avoid films with profanity and gratuitous sex, I'm a total movie buff. And I especially love it when a film inspires ...

Created on 20 March 2019

16. Don't Be So Quick to End Relationships

Anger has reached the boiling point in our country. Passengers are being removed from planes because they started fistfights. Entitled store customers are going berserk in checkout lines. Restaurant patrons ...

Created on 12 March 2019

17. Why Are We Afraid to Preach About Sin?

I don't like angry preachers. If a person mixes a sermon with hateful language, he's in the wrong profession. Yet today we've jumped to the opposite extreme. Now we are so afraid of sounding angry that ...

Created on 06 March 2019

18. How I Adjusted My Spoiled American Attitude

I spent two weeks in February ministering in Uganda, where I've made some of the best friends on the planet. But life is not easy there—at least not for a Mazungu (white person) who has become so accustomed ...

Created on 04 March 2019

19. The Greatest Secret I've Learned About Prayer

I'll never forget where I was sitting in the Orlando airport in Florida several years ago when I heard an unusual announcement on the public-address system. A male voice said: "George Mueller. George Mueller. ...

Created on 27 February 2019

20. Jesus Doesn't Ignore Sexual Abuse—He Confronts It

Catholic leaders will meet for four days this week at the Vatican for an unprecedented summit on sexual abuse. The meeting comes just days after Pope Francis took the surprising step of defrocking Cardinal ...

Created on 19 February 2019