The Path to Sexual Sin

A common path to sexual sin is the notion that feelings are not only all-important but also totally uncontrollable; they just happen to you.

Conquering Cable TV

I travel alone a lot in my job, and I stay in a lot of hotels with cable TV. I sometimes struggle whether to watch pornography while in the room.

One time, ...

Long Road Home

The road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Avoid the Cactus

The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.

Identifying the Devil

The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.

Shooting Despite Distraction

In one scene of the popular movie Robin Hood, The Prince of Thieves, Kevin Costner as Robin comes to a young man taking aim at an archery target. Robin ...

Good Soldier

He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish and prefer that which is truly ...

Defeating the Bully

In his book Fuzzy Memories, Jack Handey writes:

There used to be this bully who would demand my lunch money every day. Since I was smaller, I would give ...

God Always Provides Escape

Escape

Our train rolled into Kansas City at 1 a.m. Dim lights came on to help the new passengers find seats. Many of us who had been riding home through ...

Boredom Breeds Sin

Many think the Christian life is prosaic, dull, uneventful. It is anything but that! If it appears that way, it is almost certainly a life out of focus ...