Accountability as Safeguard

Accountability to another is the only way to safeguard against poor judgment, unconscious motivations, and self-deception.

Busyness Prevention

I have asked three close friends to monitor me and tell me when I am allowing busyness to crowd out fellowship with God.

God Is Not Our Grandfather

We want, in fact, not so much a Father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven--a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying ...

Turn Around

Repentance is not basically a religious word. It comes from a culture where people were essentially nomadic and lived in a world with no maps or street ...

Not My Fault

We have a society which is psychiatrized in the same sense in which medieval European society was Christianized, religionized--everything was a matter ...

Excuses

Excuses are the cradle ... that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.

Live Each Day as Your Last

The greatest thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might ...

John Knox Pleads Guilty

Fiery reformer John Knox was keenly aware of his own shortcomings:

Although I never lack the presence and plain image of my own wretched infirmity, yet ...

Recovering Hypocrite

Accountability to me is unnatural. My tendency is to only let you know enough about me to give you a good impression. I am a recovering hypocrite.