Flee Contentiousness

Eschew controversy, my brethren, as you would eschew the entrance to hell itself! Let them have it their own way. Let them talk, let them write, let them ...

Our Most Deadly Enemy

Research indicates that the spotted owls' greatest threat may be not logging, but one of its relatives. For the past fifteen years, the barred owl ...

Forgiveness: Beginning Again

Forgiveness isn't pretending nothing has happened, or pretending that what happened didn't hurt. It isn't even forgetting it completely, and ...

Time Change

Time heals grief and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves. It is ...

Serving the Other Side

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that firefighters in Genoa, Texas, were accused of deliberately setting more than forty destructive fires. When ...

Away with Gossip

I once formed a mutual encouragement fellowship at a time of stress in one of my pastorates. The members subscribed to a simple formula applied before ...

Brotherly Strife

Augustus Toplady, who wrote the famous hymn "Rock of Ages," called John Wesley a "tadpole in divinity." Wesley in turn called Toplady ...

Not My Fault

When someone opposes us, it's all too easy to consider that person the evil one.

Forgiving Others

The German philosopher Schopenhauer compared the human race to a bunch of porcupines huddling together on a cold winter's night. He said, "The ...

Fighting Words

Peter Muhlenberg gave perhaps the most dramatic sermon of the Revolutionary era.

Though Peter Muhlenberg had preached regularly for the cause of the American ...