Shortcomings in Lay Education

Our age is one of specialization, and yet, for the most part, lay education programs have taken a generalist direction. Programs designed with study guides ...

Heedless Knowledge

Man always knows his life will shortly cease,

Yet madly lives as if he knew it not.

Sin: The Great Depression

The modern view seems much nicer to talk about than sin. Sin is so depressing. It makes people feel bad about themselves--or so psychologists tell us.

Real Learning

Education is a bringing out of what is there and giving it the power of expression, not packing in what does not belong; and spiritual education means ...

Prayer for Tolerance

God, help us not to despise or oppose what we do not understand.

The Ladder of Knowledge

Do you think to come to Jesus up the ladder of knowledge? Come down, sir; you will meet him at the foot.

What Do We Make of Jesus?

What are we to make of Jesus Christ? This is a question which has, in a sense, a frantically comic side. For the real question is not what are we to make ...

Composer and Score

An awe for the composer, God, is necessary before a pastor can fully understand his score, the Bible.

Missing an Ocean of Truth

I don't know what I may seem to the world, but, as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in ...

Desensitized by Science

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made it a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the part ...