Continuing Unnecessary Battle

On March 10, 1974, Lt. Hiroo Onada was the last World War II Japanese soldier to surrender.

Onada had been left on the island Lubang in the Philippines ...

Lost Cause

What will it profit a man if he gains his cause, and silences his adversary, if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which ...

Fellowship Is a Double-Edged Sword

People in the church are like porcupines in a snowstorm. We need each other to keep warm, but we prick each other if we get too close.

Serving the Other Side

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that firefighters in Genoa, Texas, were accused of deliberately setting more than forty destructive fires. When ...

Health Hazard

Petty people are ugly people. They are people who have lost their vision. They are people who have turned their eyes away from what matters and focused, ...

"The Church Did This to Me"

When I visit newcomers, I try to elicit the-church-did-this-to-me stories, because nearly everybody has one.

Swim for Your Life

Our society is not a community radiant with the love of Christ, but a dangerous network of domination and manipulation in which we can easily get entangled ...

More than Gun Control

Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the ...