When newscasters are reporting a tragic accident, crime, or storm, they will often end the segment by assuring all those affected that they are “in our thoughts and prayers.” Sometimes they will also add a website address to which viewers can go to find out how they can help those in need. Here […]
3257) Thoughts and Prayers Read More »
Above: The Talents, 1908 by artist Eugène Burnand (1850-1921). ————————————- Matthew 25:14-30: (Jesus said), “It will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them. To one he gave five bags of gold (‘talents’ in older translations), to another two bags, and to another
3137) Doing God’s Business Read More »
Do you know what Santa Claus did before he moved to the North Pole, hired all those elves, and started making toys to deliver to all the little children of the world on Christmas Eve? He was a minister. That’s true! Here’s the story. Once upon a time, around 280 A.D., on
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The story of Stanley Tam (1916-2023), compiled from articles by Randy Alcorn at http://www.epm.org (6-16-21) and Todd Harper at http://www.ncfgiving.com (5-16-23). ————————— In 1934, as a young door-to-door salesman, Stanley Tam met a farmer’s wife who told him about Jesus. Six weeks later, while in a church, he placed his faith in Christ.
3067) God in the Plastics Business Read More »
My dad died this past Monday morning. That is him in the photo above (taken before I knew him). He is probably about a year old, so it was taken in 1933. My dad told the story of that day as he heard it from his mother. Just when the photographer was ready
Above: Scrubwoman, 1937 pencil drawing by Bent Franklin Larsen (1882 – 1970) ——————– By Patty McGarvey posted at www.alliance.org *********************************** “I vas called to scrub und preach. I vas a borned preacher, und as I vas poor, I learned to vork. I do good vork, so people vants me; but if they haf me, they must haf
3026) Sophie the Scrubwoman Read More »
Brad was a young man just out of college, looking for work. He lived in a dumpy little apartment in a bad part of town, but he did not plan to be there very long. As soon as he found a good job and had some money, he’d be out of there. He
From No Greater Love, by Mother Teresa, 1997: One night a man came to our house and told me, “There is a family with eight children. They have not eaten for days.” I took some food with me and went. When I finally came to that family, I saw the faces of
2965) Can You Afford to Be Generous? Read More »
I can recall only one time that I have been without food. Like everyone else, I have fasted in preparation for tests at the doctor. I have been ill and have not felt much like eating for a day or two. And I have cut back on food when I would have liked
2914) Feed My Starving Children (b) Read More »
Joni Eareckson Tada, paralyzed since a diving accident when she was seventeen (she is now 75), was speaking to her husband’s high school government class about the implications of ‘right-to-die’ laws. She tells this story from the discussion that day in her book When is it Right to Die? (1992, updated 2018). ———————————
2898) “Society Should Do Something!” Read More »
