Work Ethic

The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than enjoy a life of pampered idleness.

Displaced Gratification

People often discuss the importance of delayed gratification; what do you mean when you talk about "displaced gratification"?

In delayed gratification, ...

The Trouble with Trouble

The trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out as a whole lot of fun.

A Christian's Time Off

Where did we come up with this concept of "spare time," anyway? Is there any time for which we aren't accountable to God? Is there any time ...

The Unforgiving End

Lust in final form spends everything

To purchase headstones.

All passions die in graveyards.

Realistic Happiness

Who could speak more realistically about the illusion of a yuppie value system than Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who suffered deprivation of all that money ...

God Is Not Our Grandfather

We want, in fact, not so much a Father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven--a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying ...

Sex and Happiness

Perhaps one of the most persistent and obviously invalid assumptions of our civilization is that sexual behavior brings happiness. The media trumpet the ...

Too Much of a Good Thing

Our souls may receive infinite hurt, and be rendered incapable of all virtue, merely by the use of innocent and lawful things. What is more innocent than ...

No Worlds to Conquer?

The twin aims that have animated mankind since the dawn of history are the conquest of nature and the conquest of drudgery. Now they seem in a fair way ...