INSIGHTS INTO WHY PEOPLE DISCRIMINATE AND HOW TO STOP Why do people discriminate against others? What is the motive? What do they hope to gain? If we understand the answers...

THE RACIAL GOLDEN RULE: IF WE WOULD NOT WANT TO BE DISCRIMINIATED AGAINST, WE SHOULD NOT DISCRIMINATE. As our nation reels from accumulating racial conflict, punctuated by the tragedy in...

JUST AS OUR NATION FOLLOWED BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES TO POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE, SO WE CAN FOLLOW BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES TO SPIRITUAL INDEPENDENCE Having just celebrated the 4th of July in the U.S., it...

ONE OF THE GREAT CHALLENGES OF DIVERSITY IS THAT WE OFTEN FAIL TO VALUE OTHERS WHO ARE DIFFERENT FROM US We live in a universe of stupefying diversity. And for...

MENTAL RENEWAL TECHNIQUES WORK FOR CHRISTIANS AND NON-CHRISTIANS ALIKE. The key to personal transformation, we learn in Romans 12:2, is mental renewal: Do not be conformed to this world, but...

CHRISTIANS MUST RESIST TAKING ON THE “COLOR” OF CULTURE AROUND US Chameleons are able to take on the color of the plants or other background in which they find themselves....

WE CAN CHANGE FROM WHO WE ARE TO WHO WE WANT TO BE I remember when I was still a student, hearing theologian and philosopher Francis Schaeffer say one of...

WE ARE PROGRAMMED BY GOD TO SEEK OUR OWN WELFARE, BUT WE OFTEN TRY TO FIND IT IN SOMETHING OR SOMEONE OTHER THAN IN GOD The #1 reason we act...

WE DON’T “OWN” TRUTH THAT GOES IN ONE EAR AND OUT THE OTHER Truth is vital to everyone. It does no one any good not to operate on the basis...

WE MUST DEPLOY OUR MIND IN HELPFUL WAYS Last week we said that the Christian life, and the spiritual warfare that it inevitably involves, is a battle for the mind....

WE MUST GUARD OUR MIND TO PROTECT IT FROM HARM The Christian life, and the spiritual warfare that it inevitably involves, is a battle for the mind. If that battle...

GROW CLOSER TO GOD BY GROWING CLOSER TO HIS WORD It is normal for Christians to long for a closer relationship with God than they have. After all, we cannot...

WE MUST BE AS COMMITTED OUR “CALLING” AS THEY ARE TO THEIRS In the Winter volume DTS Magazine, the official publication of Dallas Theological Seminary, Tom Doyle wrote an article...

GOD HAS CREATED US SO THAT WE CHANGE MOST EFFECTIVELY WHEN WE FOLLOW HIS RULES FOR CHANGE Last week, we looked at the power of matching methods to goals, and...

YOU CAN IMPACT OTHERS BY PLAYING BY THE RULES FOR HOW GOD HAS CREATED US TO CHANGE Years ago when I was teaching Bible Doctrine at a Christian college, I...

THE SINGLE MOST RELIABLE PREDICTOR OF SUCCESS IS “GRIT.” “True Grit,” is the title of a 1969 Western starring John Wayne, in the role of U. S. Marshall Rooster Coburn,...