Keep Them Separated

A farmer went each week to the Farmers' Market to sell, among other things, the cottage cheese and apple butter made on his farm. He carried these ...

Nothing in Common

Liberals are always talking about pluralism, but that is not what they mean. ... In public school, Jews don't meet Christians. Christians don't ...

Masked Christians

I think we are unreal about ourselves, even as Christians, because we are afraid that if people find out what we are actually like inside, behind the ...

Enormous Barrier

A feeble, nominal Christianity is the great obstacle to the conversion of the world.

Mild Cases of Christianity

Chad Walsh wrote an intriguing book entitled Early Christians of the Twenty-First Century. He provoked my thinking with words like these:

"Millions ...

Change Men, Not Christ

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

Which Whiskey Are We Talking About?

Barry Lorch in his San Diego Union column recently told of a debate on the floor of the United States Senate about 130 years ago. The issue was whether ...

Small Steps Toward Sin

Immorality is the cumulative product of small indulgences and minuscule compromises, the immediate consequences of which were, at the time, indiscernible. ...

The Boring Church

Because we have been so willing to accommodate the message of the Bible to the limitations of contemporary culture, the modern world does not regard the ...

Trivial Pursuit in Church

Trivialization in the church, as in society, results in a loss of the ability to think. Christians are lured to view the world as the world views itself--uncritically ...