Forgiveness Unloads a Sack of Potatoes

A teacher once told each of her students to bring a clear plastic bag and a sack of potatoes to school.

They were instructed to call to mind every person ...

Carrying Blessings and Burdens

There is an old legend about three men and their sacks. Each man had two sacks, one tied in front of his neck and the other tied on his back. When the ...

Discipline Pays Off

In The Sacred Romance, John Eldredge writes:

As a young boy, around the time my heart began to suspect that the world was a fearful place and I was on ...

Humility Brings Rest

Give me humility, in which alone is rest, and deliver me from pride, which is the heaviest of burdens.

The Danger of Standing Alone

A few winters ago, heavy snows hit North Carolina. Following a wet, six-inch snowfall, it was interesting to see the effect along Interstate 40. Next ...

Christianity "Lite"

The notion of "lite," says a university expert on popular culture, is a trend in American culture. "That is for everybody to be utterly ...

The Burden of Suffering

In America, Christians pray for the burden of suffering to be lifted from their backs. In the rest of the world Christians pray for stronger backs so ...

A Corporate Burden

Mieczyslaw Malinski writes: "It's easiest to see the cross on Jesus's shoulders. It's a bit harder with our neighbor's cross. Most ...

Learning to Discard "Necessities"

In Jules Verne's novel The Mysterious Island, he tells of five men who escape a Civil War prison camp by hijacking a hot air balloon. As they rise ...

The Dangers of Stress

The pressures of the ministry eat at the heart muscle of any man, or the stomach lining, or the arteries, all of which compose the miracle that is the ...