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. ...

Cheating on an English Test

Allison Asimakoupoulos writes in Campus Life:

My first grade teacher, Mrs. Ayres, taught me things I needed to know to start school right, including one ...

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 ...

Lauryn Hill on God's Provision

Grammy-winning pop diva Lauryn Hill says:

We have an enemy inside of us who tries to convince us that there is something out there that is better than ...

"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 ...

God Provides but Expects our Effort

The air war over Bosnia in the late 1990s made famous the escape of Scott O'Grady. The downed American flier evaded capture for days in enemy territory ...

"The Fellowship of the Ring": The Seductive Power of Sin

In J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Bilbo Baggins passes on to Frodo a coveted ring.

Gollum, one of the original ...

Oskar Schindler Falls to Temptation

Recent anniversary celebrations of the World War II liberation of Europe have again put before our eyes the victims and the heroes of the Holocaust. I ...

Max Lucado Confesses Struggle

Author and pastor Max Lucado said that giving up beer helped him get closer to God. Lucado said, "I come from a family of alcoholism. If there's ...

St. Thomas Aquinas's Devotion

In St. Thomas Aquinas, G. K. Chesterton describes the early life of the brilliant medieval theologian. Thomas was born into a wealthy, aristocratic family, ...