Focusing on the Sin of Others

When our children were young, my husband and I decided we wouldn't watch R-rated movies. We wouldn't allow our children to watch them, so we decided ...

Confronting the Addiction of Harmful Words

Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, author of Words That Hurt, Words That Heal, has lectured throughout this country on the powerful, and often negative, impact of ...

Prayer Deters Gossip

We never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray!

—Evangelist Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994)

Stumbling-Block or Stepping-Stone?

The following is an object lesson you might use in a sermon:

Text: "Let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to ...

Be Patient with Me, I'm Happening

George Sanchez writes in Discipleship Journal:

I was visiting my daughter's home when my grandson grabbed my hand to take me to see something. My daughter ...

Hold Your Judgment

A grocery store check-out clerk once wrote to advice-columnist Ann Landers to complain that she had seen people buy "luxury" food items—like ...

A Father Who Won't Affirm

In We Are Still Married, Garrison Keillor writes:

The town ball club was the Lake Wobegon Schroeders, so named because the starting nine were brothers, ...

Prisoners of Ourselves

It is not that someone else is preventing you from living happily; you yourself do not know what you want. Rather than admit this, you prefer that someone ...

Easy Criticism

The business of finding fault is very easy, and that of doing better very difficult.

Of Specks and Beams

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect but we will not amend our own fault.