The First Thanksgiving

The Pilgrims would not fully understand in their lifetime the reason for the suffering that beset them. The first official Thanksgiving Day occurred as ...

Already Half-Dead?

If we refuse to take the risk of being vulnerable, we are already half-dead. If you are half-dead, you don't have to starve with the people of Ethiopia. ...

Life's Most Powerful Force

The Christian business person attracts people to Christ by serving need, not greed. When we do something to meet someone's need, he will ask why we ...

Retrieving Perspective

Gary Thomas writes in Christianity Today:

Thinking about eternity helps us retrieve [perspective]. I'm reminded of this every year when I figure my ...

Real Reward

I once heard a story about a father who inquired of his son when he planned to purchase a much-needed automobile. "When God sends my one hundred ...

Better than Televangelism

Americans in the '80s, the last years of the cable-television evangelists, were prompted to give to the six primary cable televangelists nearly $700 ...

Another Day in Paradise

Last year's song of the year was called Another Day in Paradise by Phil Collins. The song tells about a beggar in the street asking, "Can you ...

Priceless Love

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure ...

Worship, a Response to Truth

Our emotions become worship when, in response to a truth about God, we give something back to God.

Stealing from God

Because I am my church's financial secretary, my children are familiar with the weekly trip to the bank. But one day my 3-year-old opened the bank ...