Help Not Wanted

Our pastor was organizing an evangelistic outreach using small acts of kindness to demonstrate Christ's love. He phoned several neighborhood grocery ...

Rush Yarnell: Real Life Samaritan

Concentrating on rush hour traffic, Rush Yarnell just happened to glance in his rearview mirror and see the small boy collapse onto the snow-covered sidewalk. ...

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 ...

Prayer for Good People

O Lord, make the bad people good and the good people nice.

Gentle Criticism

When you find it necessary to criticize another's work, these words by John Wanamaker should prove valuable: "Whatever you have to say to people ...

Three Important Things in Life

Henry James--you didn't expect me to mention him particularly--when Henry James, the great old fuddy-duddy and American novelist, was saying good-by ...

Stop the Gay-Bashing

To demonstrate Christ's love, you have to drop the pejorative, gay-bashing language.

Nice Guys Sometimes Win

There is a story that comes to us out of the long ago of a king who organized a great race within his kingdom. All the young men of the kingdom participated. ...

Sins of Speech

To say what is untrue, what is unkind, or to say it unkindly, constitutes failure in Christian living and Christian witness.

Extreme Kindness

In Elmer Bendiner's book, The Fall of Fortresses, he describes one bombing run over the German city of Kassel:

Our B-17 ("The Tondelayo") ...