Top 10 Articles of October 2009

By Dr. John Barnett
How hard is it to die when you have so much wealth? Psalm 116 teaches us eight habits that can keep us spiritually healthy until death.
By Whitney Hopler
Discouragement comes out of hopelessness. But so does hope. Here's how you can look to God, the source of A Hope and a Future.
By John Piper
If you care about people and risk talking to the depressed, the doubting, the skeptical, the confused, and the angry, you will soon run into a person who will minimize your counsel and say it doesn't work.
By Joe Beam
In my work with marriages hurt by affairs, by far there have been more situations where the wife was unfaithful. Let's look at some underlying causes for relationship affairs...
By Whitney Von Lake Hopler
Josh McDowell and his coauthor Dave Sterrett have written the new book "O" God: A Dialogue on Truth and Spirituality to help Christians learn how to discern what's true and what's not in Oprah's powerfully influential teachings. Read the interview...
By R.C. Sproul
The charge that the church is full of hypocrites is manifestly false. Though no Christian achieves the full measure of sanctification in this life, that we all struggle with ongoing sin does not justly yield the verdict of hypocrisy.
By Cindi McMenamin
Lori was choosing to stay in a dating relationship that was clearly unhealthy and unsafe. I knew God had more in store for Lori. But Lori apparently didn't believe that...
By Albert Mohler
The ELCA's new principle of "bound-conscience" actually embraces and leads to what Martin Luther most feared -- a burlesque of conflicting consciences without accountability to the Scriptures.
FamilyLife and RDM on Infertility, Adoption, and Orphan Care
By Russell Moore
Last week, I had the joy of joining Dennis Rainey and Bob Lepine on FamilyLife Today to talk about infertility, adoption, orphan care, our story, and Adopted for Life.
By Dr. John Barnett
Someone once said, "For a Christian to celebrate Halloween would be as proper as a Holocaust survivor trying to celebrate Hitler's birthday." Yet so many believers continue to do so without considering what they are doing. Why?
Originally published November 02, 2009.