The Company of the Discouraged

The company of the discouraged is a very noble company. Not too long ago, the Hayden Planetarium in New York City issued an invitation to all those who ...

Treating the Future Man

If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay that way, but if you treat him as if he were what he could be, he will become what he could be.

Carey's First Indian Convert

Krishna Chandra Pal

(d. 1822)

Carey's first Indian convert

Krishna Chandra Pal lived a life of "firsts." He worked near Serampore as a carpenter ...

A Birth at the Border

On his night job at Taco Bell, 17-year-old Nicholas Zenns was taking orders at the drive-up window. He heard a woman scream, turned, and saw a very pregnant ...

The Reason for God's Gift

God gave us his Son not that we might become better people but that we might become the New Humanity.

Be Born in Us Today

If Jesus were born one thousand times in Bethlehem and not in me, then I would still be lost.

The Baby that Changed Everything

Did you ever read Bret Harte's story The Luck of Roaring Camp? Roaring Camp was supposed to be, according to the story, the meanest, toughest mining ...

Education Won't Change the Heart

D. L. Moody, the great American evangelist, once said, "If a man is stealing nuts and bolts from a railway track, and, in order to change him, you ...

Down and Out from Beverly Hills

Throughout their history, the Gideons have received letters from people who found and read a Gideon-placed Bible. Here is one such letter from mid-century. ...

Spiritual Batteries

Yesterday morning I was on the phone with our daughter who lives with her husband in North Carolina. We were having a great conversation. I was using ...