Powerless Against Sin

A man purchased a white mouse to use as food for his pet snake. He dropped the unsuspecting mouse into the snake's glass cage, where the snake was ...

Fire Alarms and the Conscience

Many electronic fire alarms have an internal switch triggered by a beam of light. As long as light is received unbroken by the photo-sensitive receiver, ...

Capturing the Worst Criminal

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be; till he's realized exactly how much right he has to all this snobbery, and ...

Losing Peace and Joy

I remember talking to a girl here in this church two or three years ago. She said, "Jill, I've lost my joy, I've lost my peace, and I want ...

Frustrated by the Law

Have you ever noticed that when you go to work for a company, during the orientation and training period they never tell you everything? There's always ...

New Types of "Freedom"

Today, "freedom" seems to mean the right to abort one's child or to censor certain lofty ideas from the public schools while tolerating ...

Inevitable Error

Error is the inevitable consequence of living.

Mutual error is the inevitable consequence of living together.

Argument or faultfinding is the defensive ...

Don't Put It Off

Repentance is always difficult, and the difficulty grows still greater by delay.

The Essence of Christianity

The Divine "scheme of things," as Christianity understands it, is at once extremely elastic and extremely rigid. It is elastic in that it includes a ...

Take Another Look

We need re-expression of the Christian gospel; but, maybe even more than that, we need re-realisation of the Christian gospel. The re-expression is not ...