Principal Takes Student's Punishment

A modern parable: At a parochial middle school, a boy stands with back arched and hands clenched. "Go ahead, give it to me," he says.

The principal ...

Author James Herriot: Bill Paid in Full

Veterinarian James Herriot, author of All Creatures Great and Small, tells of an unforgettable wedding anniversary he and his wife celebrated early in ...

Lucado Says God's Standard Is Perfection

Author Max Lucado writes:

All of us occasionally do what is right. A few predominately do what is right. But do any of us always do what is right? According ...

Can't Earn Heaven

An old tale speaks of a man who died and faced the angel Gabriel at heaven's gates. The angel said, "Here's how this works. You need a hundred ...

Here Only By Grace

After worrying for half an hour that we wouldn't get on an overbooked flight, my wife and I were summoned to the check-in desk. A smiling agent whispered ...

Good Works Inadequate

When a pastor named Michael was still in seminary, he took a required course in "clinical pastoral education." Each seminarian was assigned ...

Jesus Chose the Cross

Tom Allen, a former Army Ranger, tells this story:

I finally saw Saving Private Ryan about two weeks ago. I was extremely proud until the last minute of ...

Responses to Grace

Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread; the self-righteous resent grace.

The Freedom of Saving Grace

Saving grace makes a man as willing to leave his lusts as a slave is willing to leave his galley, or a prisoner his dungeon, or a thief his bolts, or ...

The Blasphemy of Predestination

The grace or love of God, whence cometh our salvation, is free in all, and free for all. To this some have answer'd, "No: it is free only for ...