Convince Them with Joy

If we can convince people that we are onto something that's full of joy, they'll stampede one another to follow us.

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 ...

Looks Are Deceiving

Our modern church is filled with many people who look pure, sound pure, and are inwardly sick of themselves, their weaknesses, their frustration, and ...

Giving Thanks Always

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open ...

Walking Sermon

As our pastor's sermon stretched on, my daughter grew impatient and started to talk.

"Shh," I whispered. "I want to hear the sermon." ...

No Useful Past

What is worrisome is the absolute domination of the present in so many homes, and the absence of any shared past. It isn't a class phenomenon so much ...

New Terms for Sin

"Sexual preference" may be the least judgmental words ever created. "Sexually active" are two others. One might inquire of a sexually ...

Living Below Your Means

Living below your means is so liberating you won't ever want to go back to the edge again.

Biography from a Checkbook

In 1815 Napoleon was defeated in the battle of Waterloo, and the hero of that battle was the Duke of Wellington. The duke's most recent biographer ...