"We know that some merchants who are illiterate look for literate mercenaries; although they themselves do not know letters, they acqui...

People often say they're familiar with an issue, even to the point of being weary of hearing about it, when they're actually signifi...

One of the issues I've often discussed here over the years is who we should pray to. Should we pray to saints and angels or only pray to...

Paul refers to how opposites often coexist, such as joy and sorrow existing together (2 Corinthians 6:10, 7:4). If you do something good, an...

For example: "The seed which fell among the thorns, these are the ones who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked wi...

"[My book] has weaknesses, but there are times when it is better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly. Mistakes can...

It's one thing to be worn out because you've done a lot of work. It's another thing to be worn out because you've done a sma...

"On the one hand, we know, men are often so dull that when they hear that grace is offered them through Christ and that they may enjoy ...

It's popular to apply the passage to something like a situation in which a man refuses to look for a job and wants to live off of govern...

People make a lot of excuses for neglecting apologetics, and one of the more popular excuses is that the audience involved can't be infl...

"[God] wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head. He wants us to be simple, single-minded, affectionate, and teachable, as g...

"After I had appeared on Thames Television's evening news discussing my fourth book, I was greeted excitedly by one of the counter ...

"What the arms of Rome could not do against Hannibal, his Capuan holidays are said to have accomplished; his soldiers were conquered by...

"I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God which cost me nothing." (2 Samuel 24:24) At ease in Zion! Where is then the...

Hebrews 5:12 tells Christians who were much more disadvantaged in life than we are in a lot of ways, "by this time you ought to be teac...

This is a major problem in apologetics, as in other contexts: "This is the age of proxy. People are not charitable, but they beg a gu...

"What they build with one hand they pull down with the other. Sad that it should be so. I must confess I find it far easier to climb th...

I've been reading John Piper's recent book on providence . As he continues to produce so much good work in his retirement years, it...

"Let us not then seek relaxation: for Christ promised tribulation to His disciples and Paul says, 'All who will live godly in Chris...

You can be a hard worker in one context, but lazy in another. However hard Americans work on their jobs, and many of them are lazy even in t...