"A Beautiful Mind": Choosing Not to Indulge Certain Thoughts

The movie A Beautiful Mind traces the life of genius mathematician and Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash, Jr. (played by Russell Crowe), who is tortured ...

"The Fellowship of the Ring": The Seductive Power of Sin

In J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Bilbo Baggins passes on to Frodo a coveted ring.

Gollum, one of the original ...

Emily Dickinson Struggled with Faith

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was an American poet who wrote mainly of death and immortality. In 1846, Dickinson's letters to her most intimate friend, ...

Max Lucado Confesses Struggle

Author and pastor Max Lucado said that giving up beer helped him get closer to God. Lucado said, "I come from a family of alcoholism. If there's ...

Keeping Consistent Testimony

Ben Patterson writes in Leadership:

Sam Shoemaker told of a near-sighted professor who was an expert in entomology. His office walls were covered with ...

Sort of Dead to Sin

In a classic Leadership cartoon, two couples are seated in a living room engaged in Bible study. One of the women is speaking. "Well," she says, ...

What Other Deadly Sins?

Perhaps the bitterest commentary on the way in which Christian doctrine has been taught in the last few centuries is the fact that to the majority of ...

A Hopeful Beginning

God's plan made a hopeful beginning,

But man spoiled his chances by sinning.

We trust that the story

Will end with God's glory,

But at present, the ...

Don't Trust the Flesh

We ought not trust our nature, our flesh, no matter how spiritual we think we are.

An Underdeveloped Conscience

In Christian Parenting Today (Mar/Apr 98), Dan Schaeffer recalls:

As an 8-year-old, I thought it was comical. Our victim didn't know what was happening ...