One Church's Survey Found Serving Others Contributes to Spiritual Growth

Eric Swanson wrote in Leadership magazine:

I surveyed my church to see if people saw a relationship between ministering to others and spiritual growth.

Church Learns Not to Lock Out Their Community

I grieved when our church began chaining our parking lot to keep out the cars of parents who were dropping children off at the adjacent school. The school's ...

Experiencing Love Equips Us to Love

To me, it's more important to be loved than to love. When I have not had the experience of being loved by God, just as I am and not as I should be, ...

Math Test Humbles the Brainiest Students

In Time Lev Grossman writes:

Every year on the first Saturday in December, twenty-five hundred of the most brilliant college students in North America ...

Marilyn Manson on the End of the World

When asked about the most disheartening thing that had happened to him, Marilyn Manson answered, "I think that the world's been ending since ...

Hilary Swank's God

Hilary Swank, 1999's Oscar winner for Best Actress and wife of actor Chad Lowe, was asked, "Where does Jesus fit into all of [your and your husband's ...

Loving God through Loving Others

From Saul Bellow's collection of traditional Jewish tales comes this story:

In a small Jewish town in Russia, there is a rabbi who disappears each ...

Serving Your Enemy

Watchman Nee tells about a Chinese Christian who owned a rice paddy next to one owned by a communist man. The Christian irrigated his paddy by pumping ...

Good Works Inadequate

When a pastor named Michael was still in seminary, he took a required course in "clinical pastoral education." Each seminarian was assigned ...

Beyond the Bottom Line

Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. ... The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and ...