"Groundhog Day": Consequences

In this insightful comedy, an egocentric TV weatherman named Phil (Bill Murray) is assigned to cover the festivities of Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, ...

Saddam Refuses to Repent

Soon after Saddam Hussein's capture—out of an eight-foot hole that one observer said was filled with rats and mice—he was flown to a secret ...

John Wesley's Questions for Accountability

John Ortberg writes:

In the movement associated with John Wesley, people met together in little communities to help hold each other accountable for their ...

Elton John on Boundaries

Pop singer Elton John told the German magazine Amica:

I am gay and wouldn't want to be heterosexual for all the money in the world….I've ...

Breaking the Power of Secret Sin

My first counselor wore John Lennon glasses, jeans, and a thick sweater with a collar that cradled his inscrutable face. During the first three 90-minute ...

Slander Destroys Churches

About 20 years ago, I said something impromptu to the new members standing in a row across the front of the church. As we received them, the Holy Spirit ...

Neglecting Prayer

In one area of Africa where Christianity began to spread, converts were zealous about daily devotions. They would find their own spot within the wild ...

Bono on Compassion

U2 singer Bono, in a private meeting in June 2001 on the Hill in Washington, D.C., said this about helping the needy of the world:

What will really wake ...

Ulysses S. Grant on Decisions

Ulysses S. Grant used to say he knew officers who would risk their lives in battle, but who lacked "the moral courage" to make decisions for ...

The World's Worst Waste

A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy, God's heaviest grief. ...