"The Lord of the Rings": Struggling to Surrender Sin

In The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, author J. R. R. Tolkien portrays the classic conflict between good and evil set in a mythical land ...

We Are Like a Contorted Christmas Tree

There it stood—the best tree in the lot. It was the second Christmas of our married life, and with newlywed-like impulse, we decided to forego the ...

"A Christmas Story": Avoiding Confession

In the 1983 movie A Christmas Story, several children gather at a school playground on a snowy day. One child tells a story about a kid who got his tongue ...

Mother Too Wise to Trust Son's Sin Nature

Author and minister Bob Russell says:

When I was a teenager, my mother had a rule: don't ever bring your girlfriend to our house when no one is here. ...

Attorney Gets Dose of Reality

An attorney named Marty, while working out in a gym, became friends with a fellow who was there lifting weights. The attorney's new friend, Vernon ...

Habits Skew Moral Judgment

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right….Time makes more converts than reason.

How Good Executives Become Corrupt

Jim Collins, best-selling business author, writes about the crisis of business ethics in the wake of the bankruptcies at Enron and Worldcom. He describes ...

Woman Tells Man He's Going to Hell

A drunken man got on the bus late one night, staggered up the aisle, and sat next to a woman who was clutching a Bible.

She looked the wayward drunk up ...

"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 ...

Living Right in Only One Department

Gandhi once observed, ''One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is ...