Uplook

Mini-Message Monday: BEFORE GOD CREATED — Being REALLY smart doesn’t aid you here. An event occurred before time began? Air quotes won’t help around “before time.” But it DOES help to be a humble worshipper. Before I was in the womb of my mother, I was in the mind of...

Fred Stanley Arnot (1858–1914), one of my heroes, was one of the first in modern history to plow through the heart of Africa with the gospel. On his first journey, begun in 1881, Arnot was robbed, often fell sick, and almost died of thirst. Yet at that time he wrote:...

Some people don't think they're bad enough for hell, but aren't sure they're good enough for heaven. That's the definition of "lost," when you don't know where you're going. Here's the story of a conversation with just such a "blind leader of the blind."

DANIEL (4.5 mins): As biography blends into history and then into prophecy, we watch the remarkable Daniel, spokesman for God, straddle the great Gentile empires of the ancient world. What is the message of the book? God has a plan. That plan focuses on His Son, the...

Life seems to leave so many ragged edges. Death intrudes, seemingly so haphazard when it comes calling. But is it possible that ALL our days are actually numbered? Are the passing of little babes and mothers in midlife just as certainly in God’s plan as those well...

The recounting of this story still chokes me up when I remember it. What to do when trouble is heaped on trouble? Or as Horatio Spafford put it after the death of his three daughters: “When sorrows like sea billows roll.” One wave may take your feet out from under...

This is a story about a lonely school teacher and the importance of self editing. In his darkest days, Jeremiah declared: "My strength and my hope have perished from the Lord.” But less than three verses later, he remembers some things: "This I recall to my mind,...

The Lord asked to borrow Peter’s boat to use as a make-shift pulpit. And, since He is no man’s debtor, He set about to reimburse Peter for its use. But Peter’s unbelief almost robbed him of a boatload of fish. Of course, the Lord wasn’t really after fish; He was after...

In the middle of the night my schedule changed. So at 5 am I climbed into a taxi for the ride to the airport. Honestly I felt like sleeping. God had other plans. And He woke me up in more ways than one.