Hoarding Child Has No Fun

Kevin Harney tells the following story in his book, Seismic Shifts:

A little boy sat on the floor of the church nursery with a red rubber ball in each ...

Augustine on Stewardship

Find out how much God has given you and take from it what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Christian Students More Willing to Help Katrina Victims

In 2006, the number of college students on spring break sent by the United Way and MTV as volunteers to help people rebuild their homes following Hurricane ...

Passengers Trade First Class Seats with Soldiers

On a flight from Atlanta to Chicago in July 2004, nine U.S. soldiers—home from Iraq on a two-week leave—were among the passengers. Before ...

Random Acts of Kindness

Re'na Garcia is a 24-year-old wife and mother of two preschoolers and a full-time nanny for two other children. She leads a busy life, but her favorite ...

Generous Town Blesses Millions

Ten days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a group of citizens in North Platte, Nebraska, heard a rumor that soldiers from their town, part of the Nebraska ...

Extra-Generous Tip Leads to Server's Salvation

Robert Morris writes in The Blessed Life:

I distinctly remember the first time we ever went out to eat after I had accepted Christ. I found myself wanting ...

Overdue Book Prompts Generosity

Joel Schelsinger borrowed a book from his local library in Orchard Park, New York. But by the time Joel revisited the library to return the book, it was ...

Suffering Boy Given an Extravagant Gift

In his book Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them, John Ortberg tells of a young man named John Gilbert. At age five, John was diagnosed with ...

Needy Woman Gives to Others

Gary Waddingham, rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Billings, Montana, tells this story:

Several years ago, when I was ministering in a small ...