Duty Should Not Bring Conceit

To do one's duty will make anyone conceited who only does it sometimes. Those who do it always would as soon think of being conceited of eating their ...

Demanding Total Allegiance

We and Christianity are the same in one thing only: We demand the entire person!

-Nazi Judge Roland Freisler

No Spectator Sport

Men and women no longer take exercise in sport as they used to. Instead, people tend to sit in crowds and just watch other people play. There was a time ...

Every Instrument Is Necessary

A conductor was rehearsing his great orchestra. The organ was rolling, giving beautiful melody. The drums were thundering. The trumpets were blaring out. ...

The Purpose of the Clergy

It is the laity who are baptized primarily to share Christ's ministry in the world, not the clergy, who in an unjust, violent world have their hands full ...

Anthropological Evidence of Compassion

One day a student asked anthropologist Margaret Mead for the earliest sign of civilization in a given culture. He expected the answer to be a clay pot ...

Compassion from the Enemy

It was 1944, and Bert Frizen was an infantryman on the front lines in Europe. American forces had advanced in the face of intermittent shelling and small-arms ...

God's Spirit of Order

Locusts legion, they do not crowd upon each other, so as to throw their columns into confusion. This remarkable fact in natural history shows how thoroughly ...

The Blessings of Pressure

Pressure consistently drives me back to a happy and thoroughly satisfying recognition that I am the object of God's call in a specific, special way. ...

101 Duties and God

What will it mean in practice for me to put God first? This much at least. The 101 things I have to do each day and the 101 demands on me which I know ...