Saying What Sells

In the classroom setting of one Peanuts comic strip, on the first day of the new school year, the students were told to write an essay about returning ...

The Real Alternative to Pharisaism

The Christian alternative to Pharisaism is not Publicanism but costly discipleship. The laxity of the Publican is just as repugnant to God as the self-righteousness ...

Line of Demarcation

Jesus now has many lovers of his heavenly kingdon, but few bearers of his cross.

Confession Dispells Lies

For him who confesses, shams are over, and realities have begun.

William Carey Converts

William Carey Converts: How a lukewarm Anglican became a fiery Baptist

Until age 14, William Carey later wrote, "l was addicted to swearing, lying, ...

With or Without a Mask

A few years ago, two men held up a bank in Dallas. For reasons I do not know, only one of them wore a mask. In ten or fifteen minutes they were captured. ...

Capturing the Worst Criminal

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be; till he's realized exactly how much right he has to all this snobbery, and ...

The Problem with the Messengers

Who will listen to the message of God's understanding and love when the messengers of that God are examples of anything but that?

Living As We Preach

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves first, that you be that which you persuade your hearers to be, and believe that which you persuade them to believe. ...

Practicing What You Preach

I have to make a disclaimer right at the beginning. I have to tell you that I'm a phony. It's terrible living with yourself after you give a good ...