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, ...

More Blessed to Give

It is more blessed to give than to receive, and therefore less blessed to receive than to give.

The Mark of a False Friend

Friends don't give friends fruitcakes.

We Were Born to Give

In Run with the Horses, Eugene Peterson tells how he saw a family of birds teaching their young to fly. Three young swallows were perched on a dead branch ...