"A Beautiful Mind": Choosing Not to Indulge Certain Thoughts

The movie A Beautiful Mind traces the life of genius mathematician and Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash, Jr. (played by Russell Crowe), who is tortured ...

State Trooper Uses Biblical Principles to Keep His Cool

Jay Kesler, former president of Taylor University, told about a state trooper who was awarded an "Outstanding Trooper" award.

Kesler, who attended ...

Good Choices by the Spirit

In the 1990s, a group of Washington children participated in an eight year anti-smoking-campaign program. The results were not impressive. Of the group ...

Lingering Effects of Anger

Author and church minister Ed Rowell writes:

When I was young, a neighboring family came down with a devastating illness. Several of the children died, ...

Natural Drift from Holiness

People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, ...

Loving Example Brings Conversion

I once invited a friend, Gavin, to help my pastor and me guide 30 lively teens through an all-night "lock-in" at church. Early in the evening ...

McCain Suffers as POW

MSNBC.com reports on John McCain’s recent return to where he was imprisoned as a POW in Vietnam:

During his captivity, McCain twice tried to hang ...

Self-control and Success

In a segment of ABC's news magazine show "20/20," reporter John Stossel interviewed Dr. Roy Baumeister of Case Western Reserve University. ...

Internet Pornography

What makes sex online far more compelling than any shrink-wrapped smut [is] instant gratification in endless variety—you never get to the end of ...

Carelessness Leads to Sin

Carelessness is the initial phase of sinning.