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 ...

TV's Flawed "Heroes" Challenge Morality

Shows like HBO's hit "The Sopranos" and FX's stark cop drama "The Shield" have introduced TV viewers to a new kind of protagonist. ...

Sin Entails Consequences Despite Grace

A young man called a pastor late at night and asked if he would meet with him the next morning. They made arrangements to have breakfast at a nearby restaurant. ...

Degradation of Roman Emperor Nero

The Roman Emperor Nero may have been in Paul's mind when he penned his letter to the Christians at Rome.

Among Nero's many immoral acts were the ...