The Hope That Never Fails

The Hope That Never Fails

          Hope.  A very short, simple, yet powerful word.  The American Heritage Dictionary defines hope as “the feeling that what is desired is also possible, or that events may turn out for the best.”  To “give up hope” is to reach the end.  To “keep on hoping” means there may yet be a chance, however [...]

Olive Press from Ancient Israel

Sorrows—An Aspect of Reality in the Life of Faith

          I was thinking about the verse from the Psalms that says, “Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.” (Psalm 42:7)  It is all too easy for us to dwell on the surface of things. Even as believers, we can miss so much [...]

The Absolute Necessity of Evangelism

The Absolute Necessity of Evangelism

        I want to thank you all for the privilege of being here tonight….  A couple of years after I graduated, Edith McMullen, director of the Teacher Preparation Program here said to me, “Are you still hanging around Yale?”  I haven’t walked by her office recently, but if she knew that I have been hanging around [...]

C.S. Lewis

Friendship With Jesus

        Before I begin, I should tell you that I took Dr. Judge quite seriously when she told me that some of you had requested that I give “The Results of God’s Friendship” talk at this retreat.  It is not a subject that I can handle lightly, so please bear with me.  I have known the [...]

"The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever." (Isaiah 40:8)

Called to Invest Our All

        Let us turn to 2nd Kings 12 to look at a passage that describes a time near the end of the Kingdom of Judah’s history. The story speaks first of Judah’s failure to invest in what was most important, second of a rebuke from the Lord through King Joash regarding that failure, and finally of [...]

An article from World magazine: “Heart of Wisdom”

An article from World magazine: “Heart of Wisdom”

        I’m staring at two booklets by Chris White: Judgment or Revival, Which Will It Be? and God and Man and Monkey at Yale. Their publisher is not the prestigious Oxford University Press but New York’s New Testament Missionary Fellowship. Their author entered Yale in 1971, the year I graduated. We were both told that our [...]

An article about Evangelist Chris White from The Ivy League Christian Observer, Winter 2010

An article about Evangelist Chris White from The Ivy League Christian Observer, Winter 2010

        ”On July 8, 1741, in the small town of Enfield, Connecticut, Jonathan Edwards preached his famous sermon: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” In the sermon, Edwards pleads with backsliden Christians and unbelievers to give their lives to Christ, and reject the many sins of the world…”

Where Will You Turn When The Earth Is Shaking?

Where Will You Turn When The Earth Is Shaking?

        “See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven? At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Once [...]

Front of the bookmark from Yale

The Lord Is My Strength

        It is wonderful to be here with all of you tonight.  This [the Upper East Side] is home territory because I taught for many years at Convent of the Sacred Heart, on 91st Street and 5th Avenue.  Lady Gaga was one of my students. All of my students heard the Gospel including her, and she [...]