Acid Test of Servanthood

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

The God-Absorbed Life

We are called to an everlasting preoccupation with God.

Ministry and Prayer Go Together

We have fallen into the temptation of separating ministry from spirituality, service from prayer. Our demon says: "We are too busy to pray; we have ...

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, ...

No More Fugues

The idea that one would build a chair or write a fugue for the sake of making the best chair or music one can is foreign to our culture, even our religious ...

Tested through Other People

It is no use pretending we are broken before God if we are not broken in our attitude to those around us. God nearly always tests us through other people. ...

Love Begins with Service

Some marriages were motivated by mere lust, but mere lust is felt even by fleas and lice. Love begins when we wish to serve others.

Ministering at Any Age

Elizabeth Dole writes in Christian Reader:

My grandmother practiced what she preached and lived her life for others. When it became necessary for her, ...

The Joy of Service

Jim Paputsa: For this volunteer, the gospel's a shoe-in.

Pounding hammers and whirring saws are Jim Paputsa's tools of trade. But when winter weather halts ...

Real Greatness

Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.