The Purpose of Discipline

Discipline ... is to strengthen and restore, not condemn or destroy.

A Scare Works Better than Advice

P.S. Regarding your D in biology, let me only say that sometimes a scare is worth more than good advice.

I love you,

Mom

Learn from Your Failure

Whenever you fall, pick up something.

Songs from Stress

There is a subject for song even in the judgments of God towards us. ... Faith sees that in her worst sorrow there is nothing penal; there is not a drop ...

Resisting God's Miracles

When [our son] John Mark was 4 years old, he was out playing in the back yard and got a splinter in his foot. He came in and held up his foot. He was ...

Trials Can't Be Avoided

Several of our people were injured on the ice of last month. I have a feeling that not one of them ventured out his doorway and said to his wife, "Honey, ...

Lone Climbers Against the Gale

The richer a man's personality, the more there is of him to be tempted. We need not be surprised--as occasionally we are--at the collapse of some ...

A Difficult Prayer

Often it is through poverty of spirit that the wretched body so readily complains. Pray therefore humbly to the Lord that he may give you the spirit of ...

Stretched to Hit the Mark

A saint's life is in the hands of God as a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see; He stretches ...

Big Difference

The devil tempts us to bring us down, but God tests us to bring us up.