Punishment

Moody - A Man Reaps What He Sows (illustration)

Dwight L. Moody was, at one time, in a southern city preaching about the value of the Word of God in a person’s life. Suddenly he was interrupted by the loud voice of a man in the audience. “Mr. Moody, I do not believe a single word in that collection of old wives’ tales you …

Praise is a Greater Motivator Than Punishment (illustration)

BF Skinner, world famous psychologist, proved through experiments that an animal rewarded for good behavior will learn more much more rapidly and retain what it learns longer than an animal punished for bad behavior. He later discovered it also worked with humans. The scripture …

Python Swallowed an Alligator (illustration)

A 13-foot Burmese python swallowed a 6-foot alligator in Florida . The consequences were lethal, as the gator split the snake open from the inside out, literally. That’s like what sin does to us. We think we have something great, until it destroys us from the inside out. (Nation …