Every Day is Mother's Day

Leo Tolstoy said:

Women who fulfill their vocation hold power even over powerful men; such women mold public opinion and prepare future generations. And ...

Rot Begets Rot

I have no potency to influence for good in the "things that are touched" [(Haggai 2:12-14)], but am capable of influencing for evil. ... This ...

Mashed Potatoes Need Salt

My wife and I do a great deal of entertaining, particularly with students. Once as we sat down, I looked at my wife and her face went absolutely white. ...

How to Make a Horse Drink

I dare you to eat one pretzel. All I have to do is to pick up one of those things, and I'm hooked. The salt in that pretzel creates a desire for more. ...

Transcript of the Heart

In commenting on the success of his work The Saints' Everlasting Rest, Baxter said: "And I found that the transcript of the heart hath the greatest ...

Whatever Happened to Sacrifice?

Sacrifice is a word a power-hungry church just doesn't understand. A church that cares about power--the power of a large membership, power in the ...

Cool Addicts

Everybody knows that TV is mostly false and stupid, that almost no one pays that much attention to it--and yet it's on for over seven hours a day ...

God the Father

A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father.

Martin Luther's Primary Concerns

When Luther became a priest and celebrated his first Mass, in 1507, he trembled so much he nearly dropped the bread and cup. He became so terrified of ...

Truth on the Block

The supplanting of sound values by the world's methods of popularity and success may be clouding the influence of the Bible upon our writing. This ...