Living in Poverty

We leave our places of worship, and no deep and inexpressible wonder sits upon our faces. We can sing these lilting melodies, and when we go out into ...

Humor: Do As I Say

Our Sunday school teacher was a quiet, godly man with a quick wit. Reflecting on one of the verses in our Sunday school lesson, "Abstain from all appearance ...

Do You Want to Be Right?

Many of you may remember the song a few years ago about a love relationship, and the first part of the song goes, "If loving you is wrong, I don't ...

Rude Intolerance

Religious tolerance is not always a sign of good will. It can be a sign of careless, perhaps hypocritical religious indifference of the most high-handed ...

The Sign of Secret Fear

A closed mind is a sign of hidden doubt.

Saying What Sells

In the classroom setting of one Peanuts comic strip, on the first day of the new school year, the students were told to write an essay about returning ...

The Real Alternative to Pharisaism

The Christian alternative to Pharisaism is not Publicanism but costly discipleship. The laxity of the Publican is just as repugnant to God as the self-righteousness ...

Line of Demarcation

Jesus now has many lovers of his heavenly kingdon, but few bearers of his cross.

Confession Dispells Lies

For him who confesses, shams are over, and realities have begun.

William Carey Converts

William Carey Converts: How a lukewarm Anglican became a fiery Baptist

Until age 14, William Carey later wrote, "l was addicted to swearing, lying, ...