Humans Prefer to Sin Unobserved

Dallas Willard writes about a 2-and-a-half-year-old girl in her backyard who one day discovered the secret to making mud (which she called "warm ...

Hoarding Child Has No Fun

Kevin Harney tells the following story in his book, Seismic Shifts:

A little boy sat on the floor of the church nursery with a red rubber ball in each ...

Augustine on the Limitations of Free Will

Free will, without God's grace and the Holy Ghost, can do nothing but sin.

Augustine on Accomplishments without Grace

Nothing whatever in the way of goodness pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without [grace].

Natural Does Not Always Mean Good

Many people justify their participation in a variety of behaviors by calling them "natural." However, the following quote from M. Scott Peck ...

Donald Miller on the Human Condition

I have on my desktop a picture of a boy named Sasha. Sasha is one of the children of Chernobyl, a young boy born after the disaster that happened when ...

"The Devil in the White City": Two Extremes of Human Nature

Set against Chicago's World's Fair in 1893, Erik Larson's bestselling book The Devil in the White City tells the true story of two men, each ...

Man Tries to Sue Himself

In Lodi, California a city dump truck backed into Curtis Gokey's car. The car was damaged badly, so Gokey sued the city of Lodi for $3,600.

There is ...

Medical Quiz Predicts Chances of Dying

Would you like to know your chances of dying over the next four years? Researchers with the San Francisco Veteran's Affairs Medical Center say they ...

A Fatal Loss of Control

On October 31, 1999, a full airplane took off from JFK International Airport, New York, on a routine flight to Cairo, Egypt. The final report of the National ...