Carrying Blessings and Burdens

There is an old legend about three men and their sacks. Each man had two sacks, one tied in front of his neck and the other tied on his back. When the ...

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 ...

Torment of Guilt

Let me tell you about Sarah. She was rich. Very, very rich. Not only was her income a thousand dollars a day, but she had inherited twenty million. That's ...

Consequences of Adultery

Richard: "Cheating was the worst mistake I ever made in my life. I don't know that we wouldn't have gotten a divorce, but I felt really bad ...

Overtaxing Ourselves

Few things in life are as inevitable as taxes. ... But taxes aren't limited to the funds we pay the government to keep itself running. Sometimes we ...

The Rewards of Repentance

Lloyd H. Steffen wrote in The Christian Century how when King Frederick II, an eighteenth-century king of Prussia, was visiting a prison in Berlin, the ...

The Effect of Seeing God

What's the natural response when you've seen God? You're convicted of sin. "Woe is me, for I am undone." The closer I walk with ...

Jesus' Strategy Towards the Self-Righteous

Jesus never attacked the sinner. He simply said, "I forgive you." Meanwhile, he attacked the self-righteous with a vengeance, because he knew ...

God Is Out to Pardon

Several years ago, a businessman found out about an elderly widow who was unable to pay her rent. Feeling pity for her, he went to some of his friends ...

Forgiveness Can Be a Reminder of Sin

A woman came to me one time who had done something maybe fifteen years before that was pretty bad. Her husband told her, "I want you to know I forgive ...