Stiffing God

When we eat out, most of us expect to tip the waiter or waitress 15 percent. When we suggest 10 percent as a minimum church offering, some folks are aghast. ...

Love's Motive

Whenever people expend themselves, they want results. If they lay down life, they want someone's life raised up. If they empty themselves, they want ...

Beyond the Bottom Line

Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. ... The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and ...

Charity Begins at Home

Without love, almsgiving is no more important an action than brushing your hair or washing your hands, and the Pharisees had just as elaborate a ritual ...

Soft Hearts or Soft Drinks?

Jesus said that where our treasure is, there our heart will be also (Matthew 6:21). If our spending patterns, then, are an indicator of where our heart ...

Losing to Win

The meaning of sacrifice is the deliberate giving of the best I have to God that He may make it His and mine for ever: if I cling to it, I lose it, and ...

God's Junk Mail

The other twenty million finalists might as well give up. One of the gold-sticker-laden sweepstakes entry forms and magazine sales pitches that show up ...

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 ...

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.