Miraculous Healing Is a Small Thing

A miraculous healing from chicken pox is a small thing compared to the grace that keeps me loving, kind, and caring into the wee hours of the morning.

An Example of Giving

Oseola McCarty, 87, did one thing all her life: laundry. Now she's famous for it--or at least for what she did with her profits.

For decades, Miss ...

Do Not Hoard Donations

Do not accumulate funds for the poor. Either distribute them immediately, or else dismiss the donor to hand out his own gifts.

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 ...

Giving from the Piggy Bank

In our town's elementary school at the beginning of the year, the school secretary routinely collects the lunch money from the new kindergartners. ...

A Blessing on the Elevated Train

I remember reading a story not long ago about the "elevated" in Chicago--a train that when it comes into the downtown, it's on a high track. ...

Change of Heart

Good will toward all men is a result of the invasion of the super-natural! A state of good intention with "heartiness and cheerful consent" ...

The Power of a Hug

Greg Norman intimidates most other professional golfers with his ice-cold stoicism. He learned his hard-nosed tactics from his father. "I used to ...

Watch Your Witness

More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world, and more people ...

Life in the Waiting Room

In One Church from the Fence, Wes Seelinger writes: "I have spent long hours in the intensive care waiting room ... watching with anguished people ...