Someone has defined tact as "dealing with others as we would have them deal with us." The word comes from the Latin term tactus and means "to touch."

In a world searching for the latest and best ways to have sex, virginity has become an embarrassment. This is to be expected in a society that preaches pleasure, but not in the church where virtue is assumed but not taught. After all, people reason, what is there to write about abstaining?

I've always been amazed at how our sovereign God can turn tragedy into triumph. Take the case of John and Reve Walsh, In July of 1981, their little boy Adam, 6 years old, was abducted from a nearby Sears store.

"We stake the future of this country on our ability to govern ourselves under the principles of the Ten Commandments."

Rosalie Searles had a very bad Thursday. First while arguing with her husband in their car, this Unadilla, New York woman fell out the passenger's door and her husband stepped on the gas accidentally running over her left leg.

Archaeologist Bryant Wood, University of Toronto, has reviewed the finding of British Archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon. They agree there is no doubt.

"Studies have shown that the child who has the lowest self-esteem is the one who isn't permitted to say anything at the dinner table.

"I had been teaching my three-year-old daughter, Caitlin, the Lord's Prayer. For several evenings at bedtime she repeated it after me. One night she said she was ready to solo.

In A.W. Tozer's book Man: The Dwelling Place of God, there is a reference to an Associated Press story about a British nobleman who died at 89 years of age.

Is there a "family-time famine" in your home? The Family Research Council, Focus on the Family's branch office in Washington, D.C., recently released a survey