Sin Is Like Shopping with a $1 Million Bill

A woman named Alice Pike tried to use a fake $1 million dollar bill to shop at Walmart. Two questions came to mind: "There isn't really a $1 ...

"A Christmas Story": Disappointment

In A Christmas Story, young Ralphie wants a Red Ryder BB gun, but his parents' only response is, "You'll shoot your eye out!" All the ...

Christ Prepares the Way in Daily Activities

There is a text for [finding Christ in daily events] in St. Mark's Gospel: "He has risen,…he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see ...

Inevitable Disappointments of This Life

Our paradigm of what a Christian life is supposed to be hugely affects whether we become bitter or not. So many of the people I work with are dealing ...

"Singles": Lowering Standards for a Mate

The movie Singles portrays a group of twenty-somethings looking for love. Theirs is an unending search for a true companion, which seems forever out of ...

Power of Positive Words

He was always in trouble at school, so when the parents of the junior high boy received one more call to come in and meet with his teacher and the principal, ...

Poorly Placed Trust

The story is told that a national magazine assigned a photographer to take pictures of a forest fire. They told him a small plane would be waiting at ...

True Meaning of Repentance

In Mission in Christ's Way Lesslie Newbigin (d. 1996), long-time missionary to India, writes about the true meaning of repentance:

I remember once ...

Love's Motive

Whenever people expend themselves, they want results. If they lay down life, they want someone's life raised up. If they empty themselves, they want ...

Silencing the Foolish

Oh brethren, what abundance of good works are before us, and how few of them do we undertake to do. I know the world expects more of us than we do ourselves, ...