Our brothers and sisters in Muslim countries can't celebrate Christmas-or any aspect of their faith-openly for fear of persecution and death. And yet we, with all our freedoms, often choose to make Christmas a celebration of commercialism!

Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure.

Everything that God brings into our life is directed to one purpose: that we might be conformed to the image of Christ.

If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of our indifference to its meaning and importance.

The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.

Temptation is not a sin; it is a call to battle.

We cannot say no to temptation without saying yes to something far better.