No Way to Live

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

Satan at Our Door

It is startling to think that Satan can actually come into the heart of a man in such close touch with Jesus as Judas was. And more--he is cunningly trying ...

Wrongful Death

When a woman destroys the life of her unborn child, it is a sign that, by education or circumstances, she has been greatly wronged.

Root of All Evil

Once the longing for money comes, the longing also comes for what money can give: superfluities, nice rooms, luxuries at table, more clothes, fans and ...

When Hate Is Born

Hate is born when men call evil good. And like an infant serpent bursting from its small, confining shell, it never can be cased so small again.

Sin Is the Ultimate Problem

The root of the human problem is the dynamic disease of sin operating within the soul and manifesting itself. We look at the dreadful things other people ...

Garbage Out of Control

In 1991, a judge fined brothers Geno and Russell Capozziello, owners of a Bridgeport, Connecticut, wrecking company, nearly $900,000 for operating an ...

A Religionless Age

In a letter to Eberhard Bethge from Tegel Prison, April 30, 1944, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote:

You would be surprised, and perhaps even worried, by my theological ...

What the World Really Needs

When Dietrich Bonhoeffer was almost hearing the stomping of the Gestapo boots to take him away and execute him, he wondered on paper what kind of people ...

The Wages of Sin

A physician told me he estimated that about 80 percent of the people who come to him come to him not because some strange bacteria has invaded their body, ...