Teaching Teens the Real Purpose of Sex

This BreakPoint commentary first aired in October 2000.

Here’s an English Literature quiz. And you might give it to a teenager you know.

Who wrote these lines? A man and a woman in “naked majesty” were “imparadised in one another’s arms,” lying “side by side” in the “rites mysterious of connubial love,” about which “hypocrites austerely talk,” as if such acts were somehow “impure.” Having made love, the couple falls asleep “embracing” — “and on their naked limbs the flowery roof showered roses.”

A Petition of Christian Conscience

This call for Christians to stand for truth was first broadcast in January 2010.

One of my all-time favorite movies reminds me that it often takes a bold act to awaken the conscience of a nation.

It’s one of the most dramatic scenes in a really great movie. The movie is Amazing Grace.

Valentine’s Day Origins

First published for Valentine’s Day 1998, this BreakPoint commentary reminds us of the power and beauty of love, the greatest of Christian virtues.

A California pet store is offering the perfect Valentine’s Day gift for the person who has everything: designer hermit crabs. The crabs’ shells have been hand-dipped in 24-karat gold.

God's Promises in Uncertain Times

Not much has changed in our culture since Chuck broadcast these comments three years ago.

You don’t have to look far to find cause for worry today. As jobs disappear, as our retirement plans shrivel, anxiety is knitting brows everywhere. Including, at times, my own.

Part of our worry comes from the fact that most Americans aren’t used to it! We’ve had relatively little to worry about in life. Sure, these are hard times, but this is not the Great Depression.

Rescuing the Church from Captivity

Chuck reminds us why we each need to be firm in our understanding of and commitment to the faith once for all delivered to the saints (Jude 3).

A few months ago, the Pew Forum released its survey of the religious landscape in the United States. Among other things, they found that 57 percent of evangelical Christians—those who follow Jesus and read the Bible—agreed with the following statement: “Many religions can lead to eternal life.”

Reviving the Virtues

This BreakPoint commentary first aired in May 1995 as part of a series on the virtues.

A Dutch physician recently admitted to killing a tiny baby girl—at her parents' request. The infant suffered from a brain defect, and the physician says he killed her under Holland's law allowing physician-assisted suicide.

A tragic lesson that what some call the right to die can easily turn into the right to kill.