Christ's Use of Force

We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once, and that was to drive profane ones out of his temple, and not to force them in.

What We Don't Know Can Hurt

There is always one fact more in every life of which we know nothing, therefore Jesus says, "Judge not."

Pardon and Love

We pardon in the degree that we love.

Resurrection, not Bookkeeping

You're worried about permissiveness--about the way the preaching of grace seems to say it's okay to do all kinds of terrible things as long as ...

Phantom Guilt

Amputees often experience some sensation of a phantom limb. Somewhere, locked in their brains, a memory lingers of the nonexistent hand or leg. Invisible ...

Better Than Instructions

Pastor Clifford S. Stewart of Louisville, Kentucky, sent his parents a microwave oven one Christmas. Here's how he recalls the experience:

"They ...

Money: Idol or Icon?

I sat briefly with an old dollar bill in my hand, feeling its softness, wondering where it had been. What other hands had grasped it or given it? What ...

Hopelessness Breeds Blessing

Our Lord begins where we would never begin, at the point of human destitution. The greatest blessing a man ever gets from God is the realization that, ...

Practical Atheism

Most professing Christians, from liberals to fundamentalists, remain practical atheists. They think the church is sustained by the services it provides ...

Straightened by Grace

Law tells me how crooked I am; grace comes along and straightens me out.