Bread and Silver

Wesley limited his expenditures by not buying the kinds of things generally considered essential for a man in his station of life. In 1776 the English ...

Don't Give Like a Chicken

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.

Deformed by Sin

In The Whisper Test, Mary Ann Bird writes: I grew up knowing I was different, and I hated it. I was born with a cleft palate, and when I started school, ...

Whitman's Hospital Visits

In an interview with Leadership, Eugene Peterson said, "Every pastor involved in hospital visitation should read Specimen Days, by Walt Whitman" ...

Humor: Just Being Friendly

One morning as I walked down the driveway to our mailbox, I noticed a stranger walking up the neighbor's drive. He called out, "Hi, lady."

Wanting to be ...

Phyllis Williams: A Refuge for Refugees

"What we did wasn't that remarkable. We just learned to move over," says Phyllis Williams of University City, Missouri, outside of St. Louis. In 1980, ...

Examples of Martin Luther's Love

When Martin Luther married, neither he nor his bride, Katherine von Bora, felt "in love." Katherine was still getting over a broken engagement ...

Robin Hood's Not a Good Example

If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

Love in Acts of Kindness

Love is not communicated in the big event but in the small acts of kindness.

A Lesson from the Good Samaritan

When our son, Tory, was just a small boy, we were coming home from Sunday school and church, and I asked him what he had learned that morning. He told ...