Sin Is the Ultimate Problem

The root of the human problem is the dynamic disease of sin operating within the soul and manifesting itself. We look at the dreadful things other people ...

Garbage Out of Control

In 1991, a judge fined brothers Geno and Russell Capozziello, owners of a Bridgeport, Connecticut, wrecking company, nearly $900,000 for operating an ...

The Wages of Sin

A physician told me he estimated that about 80 percent of the people who come to him come to him not because some strange bacteria has invaded their body, ...

Sin's Opposite

We live under the illusion that if we can acquire complete control, we can understand God, or we can write the great American novel. But the only way ...

The Puzzle of Bad Living

The puzzle is why so many people live so badly. Not so wickedly but so inanely. Not so cruelly but so stupidly. There's little to admire and less ...

Humor: Explanation of a Mistake

Cubs relief pitcher Bob Patterson described his pitch, which the Cincinnati Reds' Barry Larkin hit for a game-winning home run: "It was a cross between ...

The Enemy Is Us

A man's worst enemy, I tell you, will never do him the harm he does himself.

Lust Is Self-Destruction

Unbridled lust:

A cannibal committing suicide

By nibbling on himself.

Our Most Basic Vice

Pride is a vice that ill suits those that would lead others in a humble way to heaven. Let us take heed, lest when we have brought others so far, the ...

A Lethal Dose

Pride is a poison so very poisonous that it not only poisons the virtues; it even poisons the other vices. ... And we all do in fact know that the primary ...