Legalism: When Application Trumps Intent

In an interview with Preaching Magazine, preacher, professor, and author Haddon Robinson warns against the danger of legalism:

When an abstract concept ...

Crossing the Generation Gap

Bill is wild haired; his wardrobe for college is jeans and a T-shirt with holes in it. He recently became a believer while attending a campus Bible study. ...

State Trooper Uses Biblical Principles to Keep His Cool

Jay Kesler, president of Taylor University, told about a state trooper who was awarded an "Outstanding Trooper" award.

Kesler, who attended the same church ...

Slander Destroys Churches

About 20 years ago, I said something impromptu to the new members standing in a row across the front of the church. As we received them, the Holy Spirit ...

"Chocolat": Free to Be Ourselves?

The movie Chocolat tells how a mysterious woman moves into a little, uptight French town and opens a chocolate shop. Her chocolate is used to bring a ...

Hold Your Judgment

A grocery store check-out clerk once wrote to advice-columnist Ann Landers to complain that she had seen people buy "luxury" food items—like birthday ...

Wooden Won't Trash Knight

John Wooden, former basketball coach at UCLA, was the antithesis of many of today's coaches. He seldom left his seat on the Bruins bench during a UCLA ...

Augustine: Pursuing Justice

As the Roman Empire became Christianized, church leaders were assigned increasing civic responsibilities. By Augustine's time, Roman law empowered a city's ...

No One Righteous

In The Divine Intruder, James R. Edwards writes:

Like many people, I was shocked by the catastrophe on Mount Everest in May 1996 in which a dozen mountaineers ...

Learning to Live with Others

It is not easy living in a church community—it's full of sinful people who do all sorts of things that disturb us. But an old story from the lives of ...