Roman Sentinel Stands Guard to the Very End

When the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius destroyed the city [of Pompeii in A.D. 79], many people were buried in the ruins. Some took cover underground, and the ...

Charles Simeon's Long-Term Leadership

Even before finishing his degree, and still lacking pastoral experience, Charles Simeon put his name forward for the pastorate of Cambridge's Holy ...

Jonathan Edwards's Commitment to Resolutions

Jonathan Edwards, the 18th-century revivalist, sat down at age 17 and penned 21 resolutions by which he would live his life. He added to this list until, ...

"Dead Poets Society": Seize the Day

The movie Dead Poets Society is about a controversial English teacher, John Keating, who shakes up a New England prep school for boys in the 1950s. While ...

He Did More in Retirement

J. Oswald Sanders was nearing his ninetieth birthday when he died, working on his last book. Before he was 50, he was afflicted with arthritis so badly ...

Rewards of Discipline

When I went to the University of Colorado as an athlete, I discovered we had a track coach who was a sadist. Every Monday for ten months of the year there ...

Model That!

In ESPN Magazine, Mark Pope of the NBA's Indiana Pacers had this to say about former Boston Celtics player and current Pacers coach Larry Bird: "I ...

Single-Mindedness

Let your intentions in the fulfillment of your duties be so pure that you reject from your actions every other object but the Glory of God and the salvation ...

John Calvin's Work Ethic

Calvin did not like to waste a minute of his time. Even on his death-bed, his friends pleaded with him to refrain from his labors. He replied: "What! ...

Good News for Presbyterians

I listened casually as my 9-year-old son recited the bicycle safety rules he had to memorize for a scouting merit badge.

"Obey all traffic rules. Drive ...