Learning to Fly

In Run with the Horses, Eugene Peterson writes about seeing a family of birds teaching the young to fly. Three young swallows were perched on a dead branch ...

I Can't Afford to Tithe

My 14-year-old son, Joel Porter, has a job this year. He got his first, official paycheck. Boy, was he thrilled. He came home and showed me his paycheck. ...

A Lesson on Death and Taxes

Gary Thomas writes in Christianity Today: Thinking about eternity helps us retrieve [perspective]. I'm reminded of this every year when I figure my ...

It's the Thought That Counts

Percentage of respondents who said their best Christmas gift last year was not the most costly gift they received: 64.2

Example of the Innkeeper

The innkeeper who gave Mary and Joseph a Christmas Eve cave should be a holiday model for Christians as they celebrate the birth of the Messiah. That's ...

Courageous Giving

During World War II, Ernest Gordon was a prisoner along the Thailand border held by the Japanese with several hundred others. He didn't have any relationship ...

True Heroism

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever ...

Indifference to Poverty

The well-off and the secure have too often become indifferent and oblivious to the poverty and the deprivation in their midst. The poor have been shut ...

Humor: Paying Off God

Our 7-year-old daughter had just won $2.00 for her memory work in Sunday school. After the morning service, the pastor's wife congratulated her.

Our ...

Innkeepers for Today

If all Christians did something extra for just one person this Christmas, don't you think that the holiday would be much nicer, more memorable, and ...