Our Servanthood Can Resemble a Garden Hose or a Sprinkler

In “Embracing Obscurity” an anonymous author wrote:

One evening, while watering the garden, the sheer sacrifice of true service overwhelmed ...

College Student Called from Frat House to Starting Kicker Role

On Saturday November 5th, 2011, University of Tennessee freshman Derrick Brodus was lying on the couch at his fraternity on Saturday night, waiting for ...

God Chooses Ordinary People to Get His Work Done

In his book, “Love Does,” Bob Goff writes:

I do all of my best thinking on Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland. There's a picnic table at the ...

Kurt Vonnegut Character Explains the Essence of God's Call

Kurt Vonnegut's novel Timequake centers on a series of stories about people who have lost control of their lives. Rather than determine their own ...

Supervisor's Presence Changes Flight Attendants' Service

Joe was an executive who did a lot of business traveling. One day when Joe was on a flight, he commented to himself, I cannot believe this flight crew. ...

African Pastor Models Christ-like Leadership

Ramez Attalah, general director at The Bible Society of Egypt, attended an international conference (the Lausanne Conference) for Christian leaders in ...

People' Magazine's Cover Stories Reveal Our Priorities

In his book Life: The Movie, cultural critic Neil Gabler claims that People magazine has became the archetypical magazine of our times. Gabler writes:

Bride and Best Man Jump into the Ocean to Save a Life

In November 2010, a wedding party in Glenelg, Australia, was unexpectedly called into action right after the wedding ceremony. While they were posing ...

Team's Equipment Manager Displays Faithful Service

In the realm of sports superstars, Mike Murphy plays a small but essential role for his pro baseball team, the San Francisco Giants. In 2010, he helped ...

The Power in Small Deeds of Kindness

On an ordinary winter day in 1961, an MIT meteorologist named Edward Lorenz ran some routine experiments and found some unusual results. Lorenz discovered ...