Chesterton on Tolerance

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Being President Versus Doing President

Steve Sample, president of the University of Southern California, writes:

In the spring of 1970, when I was 29, I learned I had won a fellowship from the ...

What Christianity Cannot Be

"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and, if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important."

—C. ...

Satan Stays on Message

It is said that Satan once called to him the emissaries of hell and said he wanted to send one of them to earth to aid women and men in the ruination ...

Losing Fear of Consequences

Andy Stanley writes:

When I was in seventh grade, the school tried to scare us to death about using alcohol. We saw a film about a party where students ...

Compassion Energizes Ministry

Pastor Matthew Woodley writes:

Two years ago I nearly ditched the pastorate. I started focusing on the negatives of my job: the Saturday-night sermon-anxiety ...

The Day Niagara Was Silent

An estimated 500,000 tons of water rush over Niagara Falls every minute. On March 29, 1948, the falls suddenly stopped. People living within the sound ...

Halfway Equals Lukewarm

A "halfway Christian" works both sides of the street. He is religious because it helps him in business and gives him a self-righteous satisfaction. ...

First Experience of Need

When you can go through contemporary life fudging and evading, indulging and slacking, never really hungry nor frightened nor passionately stirred--your ...

The Dangers of Contentment

A man looking at the present in light of the future, and taking his whole being into account, may be contented with his lot: that is Christian contentment. ...