Purpose of the Law

On a warm, summer night, my wife and I were traveling in our car with Micah, our 3-year-old son, who sat in the back seat. After many miles of driving ...

Carrying Blessings and Burdens

There is an old legend about three men and their sacks. Each man had two sacks, one tied in front of his neck and the other tied on his back. When the ...

Augustine's Joy in Sin

Once, during the holidays, [before his conversion, early church father] Augustine robbed a pear tree. He tells of the event with a quite extraordinary ...

Keeping Consistent Testimony

Ben Patterson writes in Leadership:

Sam Shoemaker told of a near-sighted professor who was an expert in entomology. His office walls were covered with ...

Frederick Douglass on Escaping Slavery

Frederick Douglass grew up as a slave in Maryland in the early nineteenth century and experienced slavery's every brutality. He was taken from his ...

Payback for Wrongs

Each week Kevin Tunell is required to mail a dollar to a family he'd rather forget. They sued him for $1.5 million but settled for $936, to be paid ...

Self-Destructive Habits

While staying with my friends Tim and Jill Jones, I watched their hamster, Hammy, in his little cage. Hammy has a warm nest of cedar shavings to curl ...

Sort of Dead to Sin

In a classic Leadership cartoon, two couples are seated in a living room engaged in Bible study. One of the women is speaking. "Well," she says, ...

Actions Show Beliefs

Your behavior is a reflection of what you truly believe.

Faking Out God?

Research psychologists have found there are at least three situations when we are not ourselves. First, the average person puts on airs when he visits ...