Glad to Be Chosen

Entertainer Garrison Keilor recalls the childhood pain of being chosen last for the baseball teams.

The captains are down to their last grudging choices: ...

God's Gentle Call

In the movie, The Horse Whisperer, Tom Booker, played by actor Robert Redford, employs his special gift of "gentling" horses.

A tense, New York ...

Mission Delayed

As a 15-year-old girl in 1927, Lois Secrist promised God she'd go overseas as a missionary, perhaps to Africa or India, helping the needy. But Lois ...

Ministry at Work

Jack Martens is a minister in San Francisco who marches to the beat of a different drummer. He is not ordained and doesn't preach from a pulpit, but ...

Mark of the Call

Quite often the absence of immediate success is the mark of a genuine call.

A Calling, Not a Job

I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs ...

Dominance of Vision

A vision is the dominant factor that governs your life.

It determines all the choices you are making.

It's what's left after all the layers are ...

All For God

The work of a Beethoven, and the work of a charwoman, become spiritual on precisely the same condition, that of being offered to God, of being done humbly ...

God's Will, Our Purpose

Thank God for "purpose" in life. So many contributive purposes come into existence when one works the will of God that there is no excuse for ...

A Christian Mandate

Do all the good you can

By all the means you can

In all the ways you can

In all the places you can

To all the people you can

As long as ever you can.