She was one of my second grade teachers. She taught me math, and at that time I thought she was teaching me everything that I would ever need to know about math, and for that matter about life itself. Well, not really, but Mrs. Pillar was a great teacher and I learned...
I will never forget the day I met Mother Teresa. More than that, I will never forget what she taught me about loving other people, especially the poor.She wasn't nearly as famous in the late seventies as she is now, but she already had hundreds of thousands of...
Mary was not a leprosy patient. Rather, she worked as a medical resident at Brand's leprosy hospital in India. One day she went on a picnic outing in a station wagon driven by a young student out to demonstrate his bravery. After following a poky school bus for...
The animal fable Watership Down tells of a colony of wild rabbits uprooted from their homes by a construction project. As they wander, they come across a new breed of rabbits huge and beautiful, with sleek, shiny hair and perfect claws and teeth. How do you live so...
One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty. A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed. -- Proverbs 11:24-25One of the reasons God entrusts money to us is to bless other Christians by...
"But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves." - James 1:22Have you ever noticed how God's word REALLY is applicable in daily living?I mean, come on, we always "say" that we're supposed to do what God says do in our daily lives. That's...
Jeanene Reese, director of Abilene Christian University's Center for Women in Christian Service, is known by ACU's faculty and students as the person who encourages and prepares young women for Christian ministry. But Jeanene remembers well the time her definition of...