Freed from Greed

When a fourth-century desert Egyptian monk named Macarius returned to his monastic cell one day, he found a thief stealing the few possessions he owned. ...

Can't Take It with You

In All Is Calm, Donna Schaper writes:

There we were, two twenty-eight-year-olds in love, on the rim of the Grand Canyon on New Year's Eve. As we watched ...

Bread and Silver

Wesley limited his expenditures by not buying the kinds of things generally considered essential for a man in his station of life. In 1776 the English ...

Worth Fighting For?

The Bishop of Assisi once said to St. Francis, "I think your life is too hard, too rough. You don't possess anything in this world." And ...

Hold All Things Lightly

In the judgment of the true Christian, credit and reputation stand on ground not very different from riches. He should not prize them too highly or desire ...

The Secret of Joy

The modern world has had far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on top of another, ...

Don't Clutter

Don't own so much clutter

That you will be relieved

To see your house catch fire.

A Fuller Life

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might ...

The Road Less Traveled

Within the New Testament, there is no indication that Christians should expect to be healthy, wealthy, and successful in this present age. ... Christ ...

We Are not What We Own

In April 1997, residents of Grand Forks, North Dakota abandoned their possessions to the rising river. Record snowfalls had melted into record spring ...