What You Hide Reveals Much

You get tremendous insights into a person's motivations and problems by what they want to hide.

Lessons from Life

Perhaps God had chosen me in my time to detail what I learned from all the madness about.

I learned that often the false is made to look appealing.

I learned ...

Mum's the Word

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Dirty Windows

We need more transparency in the church, not fear of it. It's difficult for men and women alike to be transparent in an evangelical church. You put ...

The Light of Being

Character is what a man is in the dark.

We Are Like the Moon

Men are like the earth and we are like the moon; we turn always one side to them and they think there is no other.

Secret Sin Blocks Prayer

In his book Why Prayers Are Unanswered, John Lavender retells a story about Norman Vincent Peale.

When Peale was a boy, he found a big, black cigar, slipped ...

Naked and Ashamed

Human shame is a feeling of distress at our deficiencies, deformities, or absurdities--real or imagined--and especially at the uncovering of these things. ...

Clothed by God

Human beings generate shame; God covers it with a durable product that requires the shedding of blood. Human beings suffer a metaphysical chill; God warms ...

Character by Firelight

The supreme test of goodness is not in the greater but in the smaller incidents of our character and practice; not what we are when standing in the searchlight ...