Seed Thoughts for Soul Winners

June 3

Christian apologist Josh McDowell explains that the change in his life when he trusted Christ convinced his father that there...

June 2

“No man in the world today has such power as he who can make his fellow men feel that Christ...

June 1

J. Budziszewski abandoned the Christian faith in his youth. His explanation is telling: “At the bottom of all atheism is...

May 31

Complete faith in Christ is not only the gateway to Life but also the pathway of Living. “The just shall...

May 30

Ravi Zacharias writes: “In the 1950s, Encyclopedia Britannica published its fifty-five-volume set, The Great Books of the Western World. One...

May 29

John Berridge, a contemporary of Whitfield and the Wesleys, was ordained in 1745 but was unfit for the Lord’s service...

May 28

“Warning every man, and teaching every man” (Col 1:28) was the Apostle’s practice when he preached Christ. "In humility correcting...

May 27

Some of the most complimentary statements about the Lord Jesus came from His enemies. “No man ever spoke like this...

May 26

Grace is a word rich with biblical meaning. It is used to describe the condition of the heart of God...

May 25

“I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life” (Deut 30:19). Col. and Mrs. George...

May 24

Harold Urey (1893–1981) won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934. Although he played a key part in developing the...

May 23

Andrew Stenhouse tells of a furlough trip from Chile on the Sydney Star, a frozen-meat ship. It had only a...

May 22

“For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division...

May 21

Here is the conversion story of Charlotte Elliott, author of “Just as I Am.” Dr. Cesar Malan of Geneva, visiting...

May 20

Salvation includes many interconnected teachings. Here are some examples: “Whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the...

May 19

Edward and Anna Scott arrived in India in the fall of 1862. Settling in the northeast state of Assam, they...

May 18

I had a long wait leaving Prescott, Arizona, but finally the right man came along. “I don’t know why I...

May 17

“In the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be self lovers, money lovers,…pleasure lovers and no God...

May 16

In his remarkable account, Incidents of Gospel Work, Charles Stanley of Rotherham, England writes: “On one occasion I felt a...

May 15

Do you take the Bible literally? The answer, of course, is “Yes and No.” A good answer this question: We...

May 14

It is feared that much Christian activity is attempted without the work resting on a solid foundation of prayer, holiness,...

May 13

“Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again’” (John 3:7). Ravi Zacharias addresses an increasingly...

May 12

John Townsend had been visiting a prisoner on death row. One day he said to his daughter Abbie, “This man...

May 11

“For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit...

May 10

I noticed her in the crowd; she looked to me like royalty. When I asked her to tell me her...

May 9

Sanctification comes from the same root meaning as holiness. In its primary sense, it means to be different, then to...

May 8

The Reason Why, a gospel booklet written in 1913 by Robert Laidlaw, a New Zealand businessman, 50 years later had...

May 7

To a large degree, the gospel will only grip others’ hearts to the measure in which it has gripped our...

May 6

Mormonism (Latter-Day Saints) was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830, and now claims more than 12 million adherents. They believe...

May 5

How do we know that Jesus rose from the dead? The Lord would not leave us in any doubt. “He...

May 4

No one can calculate the suffering and death that swept through Angola during its 27-year civil war, as forces from...

May 3

George Goodman writes: An appeal should only be made when the Spirit has evidently been convicting the hearers, and then...

May 2

H.A. Ironside tells of addressing a “Mission to Israel” in San Francisco in 1898. At the end, an elderly Jew...

May 1

One of the most important lessons in the book of Acts is this: there’s room for everyone on the team....

April 30

How can you believe a Bible that is full of contradictions? Josh McDowell writes: “Certain passages at first glance appear...

April 29

“Because there is wrath, beware lest he take you away with one blow: then a great ransom cannot deliver you”...

April 28

It’s good to have some simple ways in mind to present gospel truth. For example, an outline of John 3:16,...

April 27

Eric Liddell, the winner of the 400-metre race at the 1924 Paris Olympics, was a consecrated Christian. The film *Chariots...

April 26

If the Bible is rooted in history, that presents a problem: how can you trust the accounts of Jesus when...

April 25

Ira Sankey tells of an incident in Brooklyn, NY. “A fine-looking young man came into the inquiry room. I asked...

April 24

If God made everything, who made God? John Lennox responds: “One of the central arguments of The God Delusion, Richard...

April 23

William Haslam (1817-1905), an Anglo-Catholic vicar, on hearing many conversion testimonies, came under deep conviction. He felt he could no...

April 22

It is natural that we should turn to the Acts of the Apostles to see how the first preachers proclaimed...

April 21

Hasn’t the New Testament been changed since it has been repeatedly recopied throughout time? This is key. As F.F. Bruce...

April 20

On that tragic Tuesday, April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School near Denver, CO, two students, Eric Harris and Dylan...

April 19

What does man find objectionable about the gospel? Everything! Think of John 3:16. “For God,” and some object to the...

April 18

W.T.P. Wolston was born at Brixham, England, on September 6, 1840, and was converted at the age of 20 while...

April 17

Anyone witnessing will be challenged on homosexuality. Some will say it’s wrong to condemn, since people are born that way....

April 16

Andrew Stenhouse writes: “We rented a hall on one of the main arteries of the city. It was busy and...

April 15

“If anyone wants to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God…” (Jn 7:17)....

April 14

Ridley Haim Herschell, born to a devout Jewish family in Strzelno, Poland, had no peace. One morning he bought something...

April 13

In Bill Maher’s movie, Religulous, he baits a U.S. senator for believing in “a talking snake in the garden.” But...

April 12

Amy Orr-Ewing tells of a conversation her husband had with a woman at a wedding reception: “At one point she...

April 11

“Our gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in...

April 10

Charles Spurgeon tells the story of an old man who heard a young man preach. When he was asked what...

April 9

In John 6:37 our Lord says: “All that the Father gives Me will come to Me.” Doesn’t God want all...

April 8

George Whitfield, who preached more than 18,000 times, was one of the most widely recognized public figures in colonial America....

April 7

Your humanity is at stake; the souls of the unsaved are at stake. The sinner saved by grace is not...

April 6

I had been called at the last minute to speak at a conference. I spent the night preparing and was...

April 5

The Jehovah’s Witnesses (Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society) began at a study with Charles Taze Russell in 1879, and...

April 4

One evening, Abigail Luffe was accosted on her way home. “What’s in your bag, lady?” Abigail held up her Bible:...

April 3

I think of my fellow-sinners; my companions in crime and guilt. I would fain make some suitable amends to them....

April 2

In the fourth century, the “golden-mouthed” Chrysostom of Antioch wrote: “I do not think of Christ as God alone, or...

April 1

“The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God’” (Ps 14:1). Is the Bible being unkind or painfully truthful...

March 31

I was at a friend’s in Vancouver when two Mormons approached. As we engaged in conversation, I felt led to...

March 30

Robert Candlish (1806-1873), renowned Scottish preacher, was described thus by his biographer, William Wilson: “Destitute of natural oratorical gifts and...

March 29

“Oh, how I love Your law!” (Ps 119:97). Leading Bible scholars, even those of a liberal bent, acknowledge that the...

March 28

How serious are we in our praying for the lost in our city, in our workplace, in our family? John...

March 27

“Your own mouth condemns you, and not I” (Job 15:6). The concept of evil is nonsensical if there is no...

March 26

J. Oswald Sanders recounts the story of a believer who had tried every way to share the gospel with an...

March 25

We need to be up and doing: girding up the loins of our minds (1 Pet 1:13), stirring up our...

March 24

People who habitually turn away the Savior’s invitation need to understand how precarious their situation is. John explains, “He who...

March 23

Alexander Marshall, the great pioneer of the gospel in the northeastern U.S., told of an old man he knew from...

March 22

Mrs. Nisbet, an upright woman living in Dumfernline, Scotland, met an evangelist who asked her if she had experienced the...

March 21

Evolutionary paleontologist Niles Eldredge confesses: “That individual kinds of fossils remain recognizably the same throughout the length of their occurrence...

March 20

It is a common attack on the Bible that the word “Trinity” is not found anywhere. True enough. But the...

March 19

Biblical truth is the substance of gospel work, so the early believers “went everywhere preaching the word” (Acts 8:4). Divine...

March 18

The town of Crimond in Scotland is remembered for two things. It was the home of Jessie Seymour Irvine, daughter...

March 17

“What is that to thee? Follow thou Me” (Jn 21:22). If the Enemy cannot use disinterest or discouragement to stop...

March 16

Thomas Olivers (1725-1799), a Welsh orphan, billed himself as “the worst boy known in Tregynon for thirty years.” Thrown out...

March 15

The gospel is free so everyone can afford it. Its terms are so simple that “wayfaring men, though fools, shall...

March 14

Warren Wiersbe, in his book, 50 People Every Christian Should Know, tells of an English merchant traveling in Scotland in...

March 13

Reconciliation means “to be returned to favor.” This is necessary only on our side; God does not need to be...

March 12

“For we have not followed cunningly devised fables…but were eyewitnesses of His majesty” (2 Pet 1:16). Amy Orr-Ewing writes: “Sceptics...

March 11

“The Lord is near to all who call upon Him” (Ps 145:18). William James Taylor, alias Bill Hennessy, alias Ed...

March 10

Without question, fear of rejection is the Number One reason for lack of witnessing. But is it a good reason?...

March 9

Henry Morris and Martin Clark write: “…many of the principles of modern science were recorded as facts of nature in...

March 8

“Above all, taking the shield of faith” (Eph 6:16). Often this shield is molded in the fires of testing. Andrew...

March 7

A King who dies for His subjects; a Judge who is the Savior of all. Aristocrats who were mere slaves...

March 6

H.A. Ironside writes: Recently, while presenting the gospel on the streets in California, I was often interrupted like this: “Look...

March 5

The word “Agnosticism” was introduced by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1869 although the concept of pleading ignorance in spiritual matters...

March 4

“When they saw the boldness of Peter and John…they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus” (Acts...

March 3

It is a common argument, when discussing Isaiah 53 with a Jew, that the Servant of the Lord represents his...

March 2

“…Come…Come…come” (Rev 22:17). When I found my usual barber shop closed, I crossed the street to a “salon,” and was...

March 1

Good works can be an effective handmaiden to the Good News. You are indeed a profitable Christian if everyone is...

February 28

When witnessing, don’t be surprised to meet believers who are shaken in their faith by some tragedy that baffles them....

February 27

While speaking on the Bible’s inspiration and the many prophecies fulfilled by the Messiah, one detractor advanced the theory that...

February 26

“Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound” (Rom 5:20). About the year 1900, evangelist Peter Bilhorn received a song,...

February 25

John Stott writes: “Note the recognizable sequence in the Gospels. When Jesus saw someone in need He had compassion, and...

February 24

H.P. Barker was visiting the doors when he asked a man, “Are you able to say, ‘My sins, which are...

February 23

“Andrew…first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah.”…And he brought him to Jesus”...

February 22

“I am debtor…” (Rom 1:14). A.P. Gibbs spoke of a tract called “Suppose.” In it the question is asked, “Suppose...

February 21

There are many ideas about Election. What does the Bible say? The word is used to describe the divine choice...

February 20

“And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire” (Jude 23). Think carefully and prayerfully about these words...

February 19

Stirred by Bunyan’s “Visions of Heaven and Hell,” drunkard miner Billy Bray sought the Lord. For days in soul trouble,...

February 18

William MacDonald writes: We teach our children to accumulate; Christ calls them to forsake all (Lk 14:33). We teach them...

February 17

“Reach your finger here, and behold My hands” (Jn 20:27). H.A. Ironside recounts the story of a Roman Catholic woman...

February 16

John Polkinghorne, theologian and Professor of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge University, comments on the difference between the biblical account of...

February 15

“The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that...

February 13

Anthony Cetola, a young shepherd living south of Rome, jumped at the chance to emigrate to the United States. He...

February 12

Buddhism, founded in India by Siddharta Gautama (the Buddha, or Enlightened One) in 520 bc, has 360 million adherents. Beliefs...

February 11

Faith is often needed not only for spiritual efforts but for financial provision as well. In dark days, when funds...

February 10

John Townsend was born into a well-to-do family in Exeter, England. At the age of 20, while studying to become...

February 9

“For a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries” (1 Cor 16:9). “Praying also...

February 8

One evening, H.A. Ironside came upon a gospel meeting at the corner of Market and Grant in San Francisco. When...

February 7

“You shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost...

February 6

“…Tormented day and night for ever and ever” (Rev 20:10). Lorenzo Dow (1777–1834) preached to more people than any other...

February 5

Luke wrote more of the New Testament than any other author, including Paul. There has been no shortage of critics...

February 4

Joseph Scriven, the author of “What a Friend We Have in Jesus,” was born in Dublin in 1820 and moved...

February 3

When asked to write a comment in someone’s album, C.H. Spurgeon would often write: “E’er since by faith I saw...

February 2

“So shall I have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in Your word” (Ps 119:42). In...

February 1

It is true that salvation is based on certain historical facts: “Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,...

January 31

“There is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). Not in...

January 30

While coming across Texas, I was given a ride by a Seventh Day Adventist. I said, “My friend, do you...

January 29

Christian Science: founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879, now lists 2,000 congregations in 80 countries. Eddy was raised Congregationalist...

January 28

In the beginning God made man in His own image, so close is grandeur to our dust. Before the beginning...

January 27

Shortly after my salvation, I witnessed to my mother. Not so politely, she asked me never to speak to her...

January 26

Arthur Gook, missionary to Iceland, tells this story in Can a Young Man Trust His God? “A man attending gospel...

January 25

We have come far short of the example of the apostles, much more of Christ; we are far behind the...

January 24

“He who waters will also be watered himself” (Proverbs 11:25). When the Lord has given blessing by a tract or...

January 23

“…Seed to the sower, and bread to the eater” (Isa 55:10-11). “Now he that ministers seed to the sower both...

January 22

On the last day of September 1816, Robert Moffat sailed from London for South Africa. Proceeding to Namaqualand on the...

January 21

Whatever you know of God’s truth, do it. That is what the disciples were told in John 2:5, “Whatever He...

January 20

Sir Moses Montefiore was the most famous Jew in the 19th Century. Linked by marriage and business to the Rothschilds,...

January 19

Let others keep quiet about hell if they wish—I dare not. I see it plainly in Scripture, and I must...

January 18

Didn’t Jesus receive a sinful nature through His mother Mary? Mary was not “immaculately conceived” in her mother’s womb. The...

January 17

When I look over an audience and think of the misery that you and I do not see, that He...

January 16

The Lord Jesus Christ dominates the Scriptures as the sun dominates our solar system. As the Eternal Son, He acts...

January 15

“The Word became flesh and dwelt among us” (Jn 1:14). If New Testament Christianity is to reappear today with its...

January 14

“‘Is not my word like fire,’ declares the Lord, ‘and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?’” (Jer...

January 13

A helpful guide to the effective use of biblical evidence is the Emmaus Study Course, Ready to Give an Answer...

January 12

Mel Trotter, who founded 66 rescue missions in key cities across the U.S., wrote: “I didn’t get a very good...

January 11

“Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against Thee” (Ps 119:11). My Bible teaches...

January 10

“Pray for them…” (Mt 5:44). A survey prepared at Fuller Seminary was taken of 750 Muslims from 30 countries who...

January 9

“Are you saved, sir?” Harry Ironside asked a man at the close of a gospel meeting. “No, I can’t say...

January 8

Is there a difference between the teaching of Paul and James on whether a person is saved by faith alone...

January 7

A key Bible word is justification, defined as “to judicially declare right so as to have the force of law.”...

January 6

“The life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to...

January 5

“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in...

January 4

Sir Robert Anderson, head of Scotland Yard from 1888-1901, was one of England’s premiere legal minds. He tells of his...

January 3

Bertrand Russell, philosopher and mathematician, was the author of Why I am Not a Christian. Katherine Tait, Russell’s daughter, wrote:...

January 2

Charles Stanley (1821-1890), when given the opportunity to speak to a large crowd of Roman Catholics, said: “I want to...

January 1

“This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to...

February 29

Adoption, or “son-placing,” is the ultimate goal God has set for believer (Eph 1:5) at the end of time, bringing...