Loving Example Brings Conversion

I once invited a friend, Gavin, to help my pastor and me guide 30 lively teens through an all-night "lock-in" at church. Early in the evening ...

Overlooking Wrongs

If you do not wish to become angry, do not be curious. If you ask what is being said about yourself and uncover unpleasant words (even though these words ...

Hot Heads, Cold Hearts

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

Submission Won't Stop Abuse

Christianity Today did an extensive study of battered Christian woman, and they found that two-thirds of these women believe that it was their Christian ...

Forgiving Actions

The following story is from an article titled "Your Daffodils are Pretty," (Christianity Today, March 2, 1979, p. 18), in which Josephine Ligon ...

Bury the Hatchet Deep

Forgiveness is not that stripe which says, "I will forgive, but not forget." It is not to bury the hatchet with the handle sticking out of the ...

The Seemingly Right Thing

At their school carnival, our kids won four free goldfish (lucky us!), so out I went Saturday morning to find an aquarium. The first few I priced ranged ...

Brotherly Strife

Augustus Toplady, who wrote the famous hymn "Rock of Ages," called John Wesley a "tadpole in divinity." Wesley in turn called Toplady ...

Battered Wives in the Church

While Christian marriages have been shown to have a lower incidence of abuse, the tragic truth is that wife battering occurs in Christian homes as well. ...

Peanuts on Inner Peace

I saw a Peanuts cartoon with Lucy saying to Charlie Brown, "I hate everything. I hate everybody. I hate the whole wide world!"

Charlie says, ...