Valueless Grace

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. Cheap grace means grace sold on the market like cheapjack's wares. Cheap grace is the preaching of ...

Doubters in the Fold

Apparently it's expected that candid confessions of uncertainty [by churchmen] will attract into the church other doubters who will contribute generously ...

Criterion for Family Health

One criterion of family health: Are you saying, "I'm sorry," "I forgive you," and "I love you" often?

America's Sin of Self-Sufficiency

In 1863 President Lincoln designated April 30th as a day of national humiliation, fasting, and prayer. Let me read a portion of his proclamation on that ...

Resurrected Marriages

I have seen resurrection in marriage after marriage when the persons became genuinely convicted by their sin and did not see divorce as an option.

Capturing the Real Criminal

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be; till he's realized exactly how much right he has to all this snobbery, and ...

Admitting Failure to Family

When the family knows you don't pretend to have it all together, that you admit failure, that you're sorry and want to do better, they can handle ...

Falling Down and Getting Up Again

I heard once of an Italian peasant woman who happened to bump into a monk who lived in a monastery high on a hill above her village. Since she bumped ...

No Hidden Sin

Do not expect God to cover what you are not willing to uncover.

Praying the Ten Commandments

In "A Simple Way to Pray" (1535), Martin Luther writes:

If I have had time and opportunity to go through the Lord's Prayer, I do the same ...