Why People Obey the Law

People obey the law for one of two reasons: they either love God or fear punishment. When both of these break down, the result is an environment that ...

Good News for Presbyterians

I listened casually as my 9-year-old son recited the bicycle safety rules he had to memorize for a scouting merit badge.

"Obey all traffic rules. Drive ...

Humor: A Real Spectacle

True story:

In Tampa, Florida, Antonio Valdez Jr. was charged with driving without wearing his glasses.

A few weeks later, on his way to court to face ...

Rules and Exceptions

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

When the Law Breaks the Law

Hurrying my 11-year-old daughter to school, I turned right on red where it was prohibited. "Uh, oh," I said, realizing my mistake. "I just ...

Shadows on the Wall

(Hebrews 10:1) says, "The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming--not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by ...

Frustrated by the Law

Have you ever noticed that when you go to work for a company, during the orientation and training period they never tell you everything? There's always ...

Contrasting Law and Gospel

What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.

Freedom and True Goodness

Above all, Christians are not allowed to correct with violence the delinquencies of sins. For it is not those that abstain from wickedness from compulsion, ...

God's Best Gift

This great book is the best gift God has given to man. But for it, we could not know right from wrong.