Social Justice vs. Personal Ethics

Social ethics must never be substituted for personal ethics. Crusading can easily become a dodge for facing up to one's lack of personal morality. ...

Church Growth, Church Depth

I heard of a preacher the other day who was asked, "What's the size of your pastorate?" he said, "Twenty-five miles wide and one inch ...

Desperately Wicked

The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood lurks, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often ...

No Church Without Christ

The Church of God apart from the Person of Christ is a useless structure. However ornate it may be in its organization, however perfect in all its arrangements, ...

You're a Hypocrite, Too

One of the enduring images in Christian culture is the praying hypocrite--the slave trader who reads the Bible in the hull of the ship; the preacher whose ...

Whose Are We?

Why should we not alter to our use, quite humbly and dispassionately, a saying of St. Augustine's: "Many whom God has, the church does not have; ...

Pious Evil

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Counterfeit Holiness

The chief mark of counterfeit holiness is its lack of humility. Every seeker after holiness needs to be on his guard, lest unconsciously what was begun ...

Be Doers, Not Hearers

A salty pagan, full of the juices of life, is a hundred times dearer to God, and also far more attractive to men, than a scribe who knows his Bible ... ...

Peanuts on Inner Peace

I saw a Peanuts cartoon with Lucy saying to Charlie Brown, "I hate everything. I hate everybody. I hate the whole wide world!"

Charlie says, ...