Pastor Chuck Swindoll

Pastor Charles R. Swindoll has devoted his life to the accurate, practical teaching and application of God’s Word. He is the founding pastor of Stonebriar Community Church in Frisco, Texas, but Chuck’s listening audience extends far beyond a local church body. As a leading programme in Christian broadcasting since 1979, Insight for Living airs around the world. Chuck’s leadership as president and now chancellor emeritus at Dallas Theological Seminary has helped prepare and equip a new generation of men and women for ministry.

Encouragement Takes the Sting Out of Life

Posted on 23rd January 201710th November 2017 by Pastor Chuck Swindoll

All of us need encouragement. We need somebody to believe in us. To reassure and reinforce us. To help us pick up the pieces and go on. To fuel our flame of determination as we face the odds against us. I don’t care how influential, secure, or mature a person may appear to be, an […]

Daily Tests

Posted on 23rd January 201730th July 2019 by Pastor Chuck Swindoll

Mrs. Moses’s cookbook surely had a special section on “A Thousand-and-One Ways to Fix Manna.” Unless I miss my guess, she had tried them all . . . many times. What potatoes are to Ireland, apples are to Somerset, cod is to Grimsby, and porridge is to Scotland, manna was to the wandering Hebrews for […]

What the Resurrection Gives Us

Posted on 23rd January 201710th November 2017 by Pastor Chuck Swindoll

When I was growing up in Houston, our family lived across the street from a widow named Mrs Roberts. Her husband had recently died from a sudden heart attack. Alone, afraid, and facing an unknown future, her grief knew no bounds. In the weeks that followed the funeral, my mother watched Mrs Roberts leave the […]

Think Theologically, Not Logically

Posted on 23rd January 201730th July 2019 by Pastor Chuck Swindoll

I confess to you, at times I doubt God’s purpose and promise. I say that to my own embarrassment. When things haven’t worked as I thought they would, when I received a no instead of a yes or a yes instead of a no, when I couldn’t unravel a situation and fit it with the […]

Why God Shakes Your Spiritual Tightrope

Posted on 23rd January 201710th November 2017 by Pastor Chuck Swindoll

I can already tell the year 2014 will require me to have the skill of a tightrope walker to stay balanced. If you’re like me, sometimes it seems we barely keep steady on our spiritual tightrope . . . and then something—or someone—shakes the rope! Believe it or not, that someone shaking our rope is […]

Unwrap Joy This Christmas

Posted on 23rd January 201710th November 2017 by Pastor Chuck Swindoll

We sing a lot about “joy” each December. Have you noticed? We’ll offer “tidings of comfort and joy,” and we’ll join our voices on carols with titles like, “How Great Our Joy!” and “Joy to the World!” There’s just one problem. We aren’t joyful. Oh, we sing the songs and sip the hot chocolate and […]

The Gift I Didn’t Know I Wanted

Posted on 23rd January 201710th November 2017 by Pastor Chuck Swindoll

Life was simple for the three Swindoll kids when we were young and growing up in east Houston. Neither my brother Orville, sister Luci, nor I entertained dreams of grandeur—even at Christmas. But one particular Christmas season, I began to drop hints on how great it would be to get a new rubber basketball. Back […]

Strangely Wrapped, Silently Delivered

Posted on 23rd January 201710th November 2017 by Pastor Chuck Swindoll

Ever since the first Christmas celebration, I think one word has fallen from everyone’s lips more than any other. It isn’t the word joy or carol or tree or food. It’s the word gift. Gifts are so inseparably linked and interwoven with Christmas that we can hardly think of one without the other. However, we […]

My Lord and My God!

Posted on 23rd January 201710th November 2017 by Pastor Chuck Swindoll

This season of the year is not joyful for everyone. Put bluntly, some dread it. They are filled with such melancholy memories of painful days gone by, they find it hard to sing the carols. “Joy to the World!”—not really. “How Great Our Joy!”—well, maybe for you but not for everyone. Now, before you call […]

Ya Gotta Have Heart!

Posted on 23rd January 201710th November 2017 by Pastor Chuck Swindoll

Getting a big job done calls for heart. Having a high IQ is not essential. Neither is being a certain age. Or possessing a particular temperament. You don’t even need the backing of the majority. History books are full of incredible stories of men and women who accomplished remarkable feats in the face of unbelievable […]