Acid Test of Servanthood

You can tell whether you are becoming a servant by how you act when people treat you like one.

A Trip to the Bathroom

While serving with Operation Mobilization in India in 1967, tuberculosis forced me into a sanitarium for several months. I did not yet speak the language, ...

Christ Wants You

It is possible to be so active in the service of Christ as to forget to love him. Many a man preaches Christ but gets in front of him by the multiplicity ...

To Die Is Gain

If we look at our life as some precious treasure we must hoard, the demands made by others of our life are like losses. And death is a final loss, a final ...

Do What You Can

We can get so hooked on the idea of excelling that when we realize we can't be number one, we quit in despair. If I can't be Billy Graham, I won't ...

The Paradox of Love

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no more hurt, but only more love.

The Harder Choice

It doesn't take much to say "I quit." It takes a lot more to say "I'll try."

Luke, Paul's Biographer

"Only Luke is with me." So wrote Paul late in life from a Roman prison, just one evidence of their close relationship.

Early tradition suggests ...

Never Too Old to Serve

Alvin Cavin: Faithfully doing small acts of kindness.

"I'd estimate Alvin Cavin weighs 90 pounds, but 89 of those pounds make up his big heart. ...

Servant Love

When [Jesus] wrapped a towel around his waist, poured water into a basin, and began to wash his disciples' feet (see (John 13:4-5), Simon Peter objected ...