Today a man said to me, “My wife doesn’t like me to be like I was when she married me. She is always trying to remake me.”
There are lots of people that way. They married “for better or for worse” but they didn’t realize how bad that worse would be. When they find out, they immediately set out to remodel their mate.
This man didn’t like that. Few people do. Change has to come fr...
Chaucer once said in reference to the low morals of the clergy of his day, “If gold rust, what should iron do?” Rusty saints—that’s one of the tragedies of our day. According to the Bible, saints are followers of Christ, not statues in a corner or exceptionally good people who have gone to heaven. There are too many Christians whose lives are tarnished by sin. Thus they rob the world of an exam...
Newscaster Lowell Thomas (1892-1981) told how early in his life his father moved his family to Cripple Creek, Colorado, during the gold rush days. That western town, like many mining communities, was a wild and wicked place. In fact, Thomas made a telling comment when he said, “In this wide open atmosphere, I soon felt right at home with sin.” Many Christians are like that. They are too much at...
The hardest three words to say as they ought to be said are these: “I have sinned.” It is only when a person comes face to face with his own sinfulness and is willing to confess it that he can become right with God.
Jesus tells the story about a rebellious teenager who ran away from home and wasted all of his money in wild living. He eventually became tired of conditions in the far coun...
To face grief is difficult, but to face it alone is even worse. In times of grief we all need strength, love, support, and encouragement from others. We all need companionship in distress so that we do not feel alone.
Fewer crises in life afford friends an opportunity for more genuine ministry than does the time of grief. What can we do to help our grieving friends? We have a pattern in...
There is an old saying that a man is a fool who can’t be angry, but a man is wise who won’t be. Anger is a common emotion that we must all learn to deal with. The Bible says, “Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: neither give place to the devil” (Ephesians 4:26-27).
This teaches us that not all anger is sin. There must be anger in the Chri...
An article in the Wall Street Journal once stated that the Good Book had hit upon bad times, clearly losing its influence on American life amid declining sales.
If the Bible has hit upon hard times, why is that?
It is not because of science. Some people feel that modern science has outmoded the Bible. This simply is not true. Dr. Victor Hess, Nobel Prize winner for his...
“The American nation will soon be in a state of nervous collapse..." So said the 1969 British writer Tom Stacey in the London Daily Telegraph. If we are on the verge of a nervous collapse, it is because we have added to our lives a multiplicity of activities without keeping pace morally and spiritually.
We cannot be ever achieving new powers, enlarging our opportunities, wideni...
It is virtually impossible for a person to live without faith. A thousand times a day, we are called upon to exercise faith—faith in ourselves, faith in God, and faith in others.
For example, you go to a classroom and the teacher begins to teach you about Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Columbus, and many other historical figures. You accept what the teacher says as truth on the ba...