We Are Like a Contorted Christmas Tree

There it stood—the best tree in the lot. It was the second Christmas of our married life, and with newlywed-like impulse, we decided to forego the ...

Mother Too Wise to Trust Son's Sin Nature

Author and minister Bob Russell says:

When I was a teenager, my mother had a rule: don't ever bring your girlfriend to our house when no one is here. ...

"A Beautiful Mind": Choosing Not to Indulge Certain Thoughts

The movie A Beautiful Mind traces the life of genius mathematician and Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash, Jr. (played by Russell Crowe), who is tortured ...

Oskar Schindler Falls to Temptation

Recent anniversary celebrations of the World War II liberation of Europe have again put before our eyes the victims and the heroes of the Holocaust. I ...

"Dorian Gray": Picture of Sin

Dorian Gray, based on an Oscar Wilde novel, is about a young, hedonistic British aristocrat of the late 1800s, Dorian Gray, who commissions his friend, ...

Need to Avoid Temptation

Kevin Garvey has a thriving business in Broward County, Florida. He is the only trapper licensed by the county to remove nuisance alligators. The top ...

Bono on Sin

In 1982, U2 singer Bono told journalist Terry Mattingly:

I don't believe in preaching at people. The truth is that we are all sinners. I always include ...

Sin Isn't Politically Correct

Four congregation members with concerned faces met in their pastor's office. With earnest and imploring eyes, they presented him with a clipboard ...

Mutiny and Redemption on the "Bounty"

On April 28, 1789, Lieutenant William Bligh, commander of the H.M.S. Bounty, was awakened by men who "seizing me, tied my hands with a cord and threatened ...

Why Sin Tastes Good

Leann Birch, a developmental psychologist at Penn State University, ran an experiment in which she took a large group of kids and fed them a big lunch. ...