Involuntary Actions Are Trained Like a Fighter Pilot

Can we be guilty for sinful responses that seem to erupt in us automatically? Can we really consider sin voluntary if it is not consciously chosen? Consider ...

Invasive Species Cost Us $138 Billion per Year

Be careful what you allow to grow in your heart or your soul. Sin, like invasive species, can lead to consequences we never intended. Here are a few examples ...

A Good Goal for the New Year: Intercepting Entropy

In a sermon John Ortberg once reflected on one of the greatest enemies of the human spirit. Though the sermon is close to three years old, it lays out ...

Little Things, Tremendous Consequences

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.

—Bruce Barton, ...

Changing the Course of Your Life—Now!

If you were doomed to live the same life over and over again for eternity, would you choose the life you are living now? The question is interesting enough, ...

John Ortberg Learns Valuable Lessons from Vineyard

A little while ago, my wife kidnapped me and took me to Napa Valley for a romantic, overnight getaway for just the two of us. I had never been to Napa ...

The Human Longing for a Meaningful Harvest

As tedious and tiresome as it can be, there's something soothing about the sound and smell of leaves as you rake, and something satisfying about seeing ...

People Changing Habits Because of Possible Global Warming

Most people live in a way that shows they believe their actions have consequences for good or ill. For example, although people disagree about whether ...

Inventor a Victim of His Own Invention

Several years after inventing radar, Sir Robert Watson-Watt was arrested in Canada for speeding. He'd been caught in a radar trap. He wrote this poem:

Signs Follow Decisions

In my experience, signs follow decisions. The way you overcome spiritual inertia and produce spiritual momentum is by making tough decisions. And the ...