Secret Generosity

Let us hide away our charity--yes, hide it even from ourselves. Give so often, and so much as a matter of course, that you no more take note that you ...

Lost Value

The joy of sacrificial giving to the Lord's work is one value easily lost in the presence of prosperity. I regularly saw my parents give beyond what ...

Share Everything

Do not turn your back on the needy, but share everything with your brother and call nothing your own. For if you have what is eternal in common, how much ...

Offering of Joy

One Sunday morning, my 6-year-old son, Joshua, was busy getting dressed for Sunday school. When it was time for us to leave, he came out of his room carrying ...

Oseola McCarty: Washboard of Education

Oseola McCarty, 87, did one thing all her life: laundry.

Now she's famous for it--or at least for what she did with $150,000 of the $250,000 she saved ...

The Worst Heart Trouble

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

Christmas Generosity

Anne Keegan's article "Blue Christmas" was a collection of Christmas stories told by Chicago police officers. One was the story of George ...

The Wisdom of the Simple

Neal, a kind and loveable character about town, was considered by many to be quite simple minded. Time after time people in our small village would come ...

Give According to What You Have

Giving a tithe means nothing if God has enabled you to give 50 percent.

Beyond Sympathy

Sympathy is demeaning. Jesus never gave people sympathy. He wept with those who wept; He laughed with those who laughed. But He never said, "Oh, ...