The Point of No Return

Evildoing has a threshold magnitude. Yes, a human being hesitates and bobs back and forth between good and evil all his life. He slips, falls back, clambers ...

No Place for Faith

My break with faith occurred in me as it did and still does among people of our social and cultural type. As I see it, in most cases, it happens like ...

You Can't Keep Promises

Realize that you can't keep your promises. That may seem like a strange first step toward the goal of keeping promises, but it's true.

Consider ...

Lone Climbers Against the Gale

The richer a man's personality, the more there is of him to be tempted. We need not be surprised--as occasionally we are--at the collapse of some ...

Small Steps Toward Sin

Immorality is the cumulative product of small indulgences and minuscule compromises, the immediate consequences of which were, at the time, indiscernible. ...

Moving Forward or Falling Off

The Christian walk is much like riding a bicycle; we are either moving forward or falling off.

Turning Song to "Twitter"

A man had a fine canary whose song was unusually beautiful. During the summer, it seemed a shame to keep the bird inside the house all the time. So the ...

Failure Late in Life

It's scary to realize that most of the people who failed in Scriptures failed in the second half of their lives.