Servants Must Be Prepared for Home Owner's Visits

Jill Jones wrote about a fabulously wealthy American newspaper publisher named James Gordon Bennett. In 1835 Bennett started a famous newspaper called ...

Wounds Are Part of Battle

In his novel Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful, Alan Paton tells the story of Robert Mansfield, the headmaster of a school in South Africa during the days ...

Violating God's Law Is Like Putting Our Hand in Fire

Dorothy Sayers, the mystery writer, was also a devoted Christian. Dorothy Sayers was attempting to explain the moral law of God. She pointed out that ...

Steve Jobs on the Power of Death to Help Us Live Now

Steve Jobs shares:

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly ...

The Fear of God Is Like Finding Safety in a Storm

Suppose you were exploring an unknown Greenland glacier in the dead of winter. Just as you reach the sheer cliff with a spectacular view of miles of jagged ...

Judgment for a Crime Measured by the One Against Whom It Is Committed

Colin Smith addresses people who object to God's judgment on sin:

You may say, "Wait a minute. How can any sin deserve everlasting destruction? ...

God's Love and Wrath Go Together

Miroslav Volf, a Christian theologian from Croatia, used to reject the concept of God's wrath. He thought that the idea of an angry God was barbaric, ...

America's Four Gods

According to the authors of the book America's Four Gods, Americans differ widely from one another on two key areas of belief about God: (1) the level ...

Buoys Fail to Warn Islanders of Future Danger

On October 25, 2010, a massive earthquake set off a tsunami that struck some Indonesian Islands. The tsunamis leveled whole villages, leaving hundreds ...

Research Shows We Inflate Our Good Qualities

Here's some good news: if you're like most people, you're way above average—at almost everything. Psychologists call this the state ...