Multiplication of Kindness

The owner of a drive-through coffee business in southwest Portland, Oregon, was surprised one morning to have one of her customers not only pay for her ...

Kindness Evangelism

John Trent, co-author of The Hidden Value of a Man, writes:

When I led a Young Life group, I did my best to round up kids who really needed to hear the ...

Pride's Opposite

Paul suggests something striking in his chapter on love: that the opposite of love is not hate, but pride. ... Paul says two things that love is: patient ...

Biting Your Tongue

It was his first day on the job. He was a new clerk in the green goods department of a super market. A lady came up to him and said she wanted to buy ...

What a Christian Looks Like

When I led a Young Life group, I did my best to round up kids who really needed to hear the gospel when we went to summer camp. Mark was one of those ...

God Is Out to Pardon

Several years ago, a businessman found out about an elderly widow who was unable to pay her rent. Feeling pity for her, he went to some of his friends ...

Bread and Silver

Wesley limited his expenditures by not buying the kinds of things generally considered essential for a man in his station of life. In 1776 the English ...

Don't Give Like a Chicken

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.

Deformed by Sin

In The Whisper Test, Mary Ann Bird writes: I grew up knowing I was different, and I hated it. I was born with a cleft palate, and when I started school, ...

Whitman's Hospital Visits

In an interview with Leadership, Eugene Peterson said, "Every pastor involved in hospital visitation should read Specimen Days, by Walt Whitman" ...