"Dead Poets Society": Standing for Truth

The movie Dead Poets Society is about a controversial teacher and a class of teenage boys at a prestigious New England prep school in the 1950s. John ...

"Hoosiers": Taking Risks on Others

The movie Hoosiers tells the Cinderella story of a small-town Indiana high school basketball team that wins the state championship. One important character, ...

Allure of Adultery

Chuck Colson writes in Breakpoint:

I still remember my sadness on hearing that an old friend, and someone I believed was a sincere Christian, was leaving ...

Morality Upside-Down

Allan Petersen, in The Myth of the Greener Grass, tells the story of a group of a dozen married women having lunch together. One woman asked, "How ...

Best Friends

Earl C. Willer tells the story of two men who grew up best friends:

Though Jim was just a little older than Phillip and often assumed the role of leader, ...

Giving on the Edge

While Eric Hulstrand of Binford, North Dakota, was preaching one Sunday, an elderly woman, Mary, fainted and struck her head on the end of the pew. Immediately, ...

Faithfulness Better than Success

It is required of a man that he be faithful, not successful.

Witnessing Requires Integrity

Sure we believe in freedom of speech.

You've got the right to say anything you like.

But others don't have to listen! They're under no obligation ...

Trustworthy Christians

In Living Above the Level of Mediocrity, Chuck Swindoll writes:

On Sunday, believers arrived at a house church in the Soviet Union in small groups throughout ...

"Success" Doesn't Count

A missionary wrote me: "Sometimes adversity tempts me to discouragement in the face of seeming failure. But I take courage and press on anew, as ...