The Difference Christ's Love Makes

If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then ...

Motivation for Missions

One of the first western missionaries, Leonard Dober (1706-1766), gave this as his motivation for missions:

Since it is desired of me to make known my ...

Obedient Leaders

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

Bring Your Own Appreciation

"Pastor Wells, remember next week is our Pastor Appreciation Dinner. Tell your wife we have her down for a meat, a dessert, a gallon of tea, and ...

Servant Love

When [Jesus] wrapped a towel around his waist, poured water into a basin, and began to wash his disciples' feet (see (John 13:4-5), Simon Peter objected ...

Success and Service

Toward the end of his life, Albert Einstein removed the portraits of two scientists--Newton and Maxwell--from his wall and replaced them with portraits ...

Wise People Learn from Others

Where there is pride, all want to lead and none want to follow or to agree. Hence is the cause of schisms, apostasies, arrogant usurpation, and other ...

Serving Vs. Being Served

I was ministering in Fourth Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. We had a Thursday morning father-son breakfast, six-thirty. It was to be over by quarter ...

Elisabeth Elliot: Wounded Healer

What God wants us to be as a family of faith is a group of wounded healers, taking our wounds, however big or small, and transforming them into a healing ...

Growing Servants

Full-grown oaks are not produced in three years; neither are servants of God.