Patricia Heaton on Walking Out

"What was passing for humor basically ranged from stupid to vulgar—and I just thought, 'I'm not going to be a part of this.'" ...

"The Fellowship of the Ring": The Seductive Power of Sin

In J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Bilbo Baggins passes on to Frodo a coveted ring.

Gollum, one of the original ...

Crossing the Generation Gap

Bill is wild haired; his wardrobe for college is jeans and a T-shirt with holes in it. He recently became a believer while attending a campus Bible study. ...

The Prevalence of Peer Pressure

More than a hundred years ago, Soren Kierkegaard warned that the age of the crowd was upon us. In such an age, said Kierkegaard, people would not think ...

Crossing Over Without the Cross

We are ... talking about crossing over. ... The term serves perfectly to describe a fact that hit me some seasons ago with the force of revelation. For ...

Launching Pads for Firecrackers

The church knows it must not violate this world's comfort standards and expect to have attendees. See our fabrics, settle into our cushions, and feel ...

Meeting Needs or Meeting God?

As the church today gets more and more hip--more and more need-oriented, responding to the buttons that people push in their pews--I find myself longing ...

The German Church: Lessons Under Hitler

I have learned that the important thing for the church is not to have leaders and parish buildings, but to have Christians in the individual parishes ...

Salt or Honey?

Sometime in my ministry, the church I served changed from being a church desiring to be salt to a church desiring to be honey to help the world's ...

Hard Assignments

We do not want suffering; we want success. We identify not with those who are low and hurt but with those who are high and healthy. We don't like ...