Tested through Other People

It is no use pretending we are broken before God if we are not broken in our attitude to those around us. God nearly always tests us through other people. ...

Love Begins with Service

Some marriages were motivated by mere lust, but mere lust is felt even by fleas and lice. Love begins when we wish to serve others.

Ministering at Any Age

Elizabeth Dole writes in Christian Reader:

My grandmother practiced what she preached and lived her life for others. When it became necessary for her, ...

The Joy of Service

Jim Paputsa: For this volunteer, the gospel's a shoe-in.

Pounding hammers and whirring saws are Jim Paputsa's tools of trade. But when winter weather halts ...

Real Greatness

Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.

All For God

The work of a Beethoven, and the work of a charwoman, become spiritual on precisely the same condition, that of being offered to God, of being done humbly ...

Janitorial Ministry

The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.

Gift Exchange

If life is to have meaning, and if God's will is to be done, all of us have to accept who we are and what we are, give it back to God, and thank Him ...

Giving in Secret

Charles Spurgeon and his wife, according to a story in The Chaplain magazine, would sell, but refused to give away, the eggs their chickens laid. Even ...

First Congregational Church Mission Statement

As a church, we are to continue a strong pulpit ministry, teaching the Scriptures and the lordship of Christ, develop discipleship and stewardship among ...