Self Improvements

Percentage of Americans who would change a bad habit if they could: 45

Stewardship

I don't know what comes to your mind when you hear the word "fat", but I have a good idea. In America fat is nearly always a dirty word. ...

Barney Can't Compete

In the Minneapolis Star-Tribune (1/17/98) Judy Zmerold writes:

Three-year-old Katie was taken to her pediatrician during a recent bout with the flu. As ...

Medical Missionary Shared in Christ's Sufferings

Helen Roseveare is a British medical doctor who worked for many years as a missionary in Zaire. During the revolution of the 1960s, she often faced brutal ...

Doctor Preaches Stewardship of the Body

Dr. Nick Yphantides used to tell his patients, “Do as I say, not as I do.” That’s because he weighed 470 pounds. But then God spoke to him about being ...

Ascetic Koinonia

Pachomius was an Egyptian soldier won to Christ by the kindness of Christians in Thebes. After his release from the military around A.D. 315, he was baptized. ...

The Body's Need for Pain

I learned a high appreciation for pain's warning function while collaborating on three books with Dr. Paul Brand, the missionary surgeon who discovered ...

Valuing the Contributions of Those Around You

Improvisation is the willingness to live within the bounds of the past and yet search for the future at the same time. Improvisation is the desire to ...

Church Is the Home of the No-cut Audition

At my daughter's elementary school musical, the printed program noted: "This musical was originally written for 15 actors, but it has been adapted to ...

The Parade Nobody Gets to Watch

In his book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, Donald Miller describes a New Year's Day parade held in San Diego. But this was no ordinary parade. This ...