The Answer to Television

The answer [to television] is not censorship, but more citizenship in the corporate boardroom and more active families who will turn off the trash, boycott ...

Belmont Church Mission Statement

The Belmont Church exists to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ, rejoicing in him, as we bring believers to maturity, draw people to Jesus, equip them to serve, ...

The Root of Sin

The essence of sin is the refusal to recognize that we are accountable to God at all.

Not Sorry

Mother used to make pies in the afternoon and set them in the garage to cool. It was my job to bring the pie in when it was time for dessert. One evening, ...

Death Makes Things Matter More

In the movie Casualties of War, Michael J. Fox plays Private Erikson, a soldier in Vietnam who is part of a squad that abducts and rapes a young Vietnamese ...

Always Faithful

Newsweek (11/19/90) ran an article titled "Letters in the Sand," a compilation of letters written by military personnel to family and friends ...

Gambling with Big Money

On February 26, 1995, Barings, the oldest bank in Britain, announced it was seeking bankruptcy protection after losing nearly one billion dollars in a ...

A Voice from the Window

Jawanza Kunjufu, in his book, Restoring the Village, writes:

When I was a 14-year-old high school freshman, school was dismissed early for a teachers' ...

God Is Not Our Grandfather

We want, in fact, not so much a Father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven--a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying ...

Live Each Day as Your Last

The greatest thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might ...