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 ...

A Leaky Ship

If we lose the vision, we alone are responsible, and the way we lose the vision is by spiritual leakage. If we do not run our belief about God into practical ...

Truth Sets Us Free

Nothing makes a man so virtuous as belief of the truth. A lying doctrine will soon beget a lying practice. A man cannot have an erroneous belief without ...

Resolutions of Jonathon Edwards

Typical of many other serious young men of his day, the young Jonathan Edwards drew up a list of resolutions, committing himself to a God-centered life ...

Christians Should Be Different

I've recently come back from India where I heard of a little Hindu girl brought up in a strict Hindu family, who had come across Christians. Somebody ...

Let It Shine

Robert Bellah, a sociologist who teaches at the University of California at Berkeley, is very interested in the influence of religion on the community. ...