Fighting Words

Peter Muhlenberg gave perhaps the most dramatic sermon of the Revolutionary era.

Though Peter Muhlenberg had preached regularly for the cause of the American ...

Responsibility of Men to Women

Men have the tremendous privilege and responsibility to take women seriously, to call forth all their gifts.

Hollow Relationships

Few things are as hollow as a relationship intended for passion that instead is marked by mere duty.

"Steady as She Goes"

To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty, without thinking of joy, and then, like sheep, it comes most ...

Responsibility for Emotions

You're responsible for what you do with your feelings, but you can't help having feelings. Feelings are.

Start Small

Ask yourself what you would have done if you had inherited New York City five or ten years ago. Crime was out of control and more than half of the citizens ...

Emphasis on the Individual

The more seriously one takes religion, the more one should recognize that its claims are directly on the individual conscience, and only indirectly on ...

Our Greatest Calling

The greatest business of our calling is to advance divine life in the world ... to frame and mold the souls of men into a conformity to God ... to enlighten ...

Christian Excellence

At the very heart of the Christian gospel is a cross--the symbol of suffering and sacrifice, of hurt and pain and humiliation and rejection. I want no ...

The Importance of Prayer

Now if God has left some things contingent on man's thinking and working, why may he not have left some things contingent on man's praying. The ...