In happened in Reno. A police officer saw a car weaving on the highway, driving slowly and stopping for no apparent reason. When the officer pulled the vehicle over he saw that the driver was a seven-...
Martin of Tours, lived in France in the fourth century. His biographer tells this story. Before Martin became a bishop he served in the army. One cold day he met a poor man who had no clothes. Having ...
A poor vagabond, traveling a country road in England, tired and hungry, came to a roadside Inn with a sign reading: "George and the Dragon." He knocked gently on the door. The Innkeeper's wife stuck h...
After the Civil War, much of the South lay in ruins. People who owned mansions in once proud cities found themselves unable to bear the cost of restoring their homes. They said they were too poor to p...
A poor little boy once heard his Sunday School teacher say Jesus was the Light of the world. He took her remark quite literally. After class, the boy said to his teacher, "If Jesus really is the Light...
It actually happened in a Sunday School class of boys long ago. The teacher asked each lad to quote a Bible verse as the offering was taken. One said, "The Lord loveth a cheerful giver." Another sa...
According to USA Today, a 56-year-old man in Paraguay wants to adopt 1,000 poor foreign children. The man is a German citizen, which would enable the children to benefit from German social services...
God-filled people come in many shapes and disguises. During preparation for one of our evangelistic crusades in Latin America some years ago, a very poor, shoeless, unshaven man attended one of our we...
People have their own various interesting takes on happiness. Don Marquis was reported to have said, “Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.” Schweitzer said, “Happiness? That is no...
Before you make too many excuses based on your having gotten a poor start in life consider the study made by Victor and Mildred Goertzel. They studied the backgrounds of hundreds of highly successful ...
There once was a poor, rural family who were greatly concerned because their little boy had not started talking. The family didn’t have many resources to call upon, so the problem went on for a long t...
Towering over the resort town of Banff in the Canadian Rockies is Mt. Rundle. The mountain is named for Robert Rundle, first missionary to come to that part of the world. Robert Rundle was a Methodist...
Watchman Nee used to tell of a Chinese Christian who was a poor rice farmer. Every day, he would fill his rice patties with water only to find out that his neighbor, who was not a Christian, would ...
Sacred Stream Dr. Jacob Chamberlain, an early missionary to India recalls that while preaching to a group who had come to bathe in the "sacred stream" of the Ganges, a man joined them who had crawled ...
When the renowned little nun called Mother Teresa died, half a million people gathered in the streets outside the Netaji stadium where her funeral was held. Twelve thousand were inside to attend the f...
True love is a self-sacrificial expression of life-giving energy, forgiveness, empathy and compassion toward any and all things within our world....
A vital part of worship is giving. We are to respond to the needs of the church and God's people in a loving, sacrificial manner. Leslie B. Flynn illustrated this kind of personal giving in his book W...
In honor of St. Patrick's Day, here's an old favorite: Father O'Malley, the parish priest, was giving a sermon about charity. He said, "In our world today, some people have so much while others have s...
The Value Of A Smile It cost nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash, and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None ...