"But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me." - 2 Corinthians 12:9Katherine Hsu was born in 1914 in Fuzhou, South...
HTML clipboard On one of those Sunday nights early on, I was so depressed by what I saw-and even more by what I felt in my spirit-that I literally could not preach. Five minutes into my sermon, I began choking on the words. Tears filled my eyes. Gloom engulfed me. All...
When you're lost in a sea of indifference,When you're drowning but nobody cares,When it seems all is lost ('though you've paid the high cost)And you can't pierce the ceiling with prayers, When you're standing for right (but, alone in your fight),When your heart is...
"'But Lord,' Gideon asked, 'how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.'" - Judges 6:15Once when he was to preach at the University of Sydney in Australia, evangelist and pastor John Stott lost his voice. He says:"What...
I read recently the story of a 10-year-old boy who decided to study judo despite the fact that he had lost his left arm in a devastating car accident.The boy began lessons with an old Japanese judo master. The boy was doing well, so he couldn't understand why, after...
The person who links lofty vision with conceit is usually masking a lack of self-esteem. True achievers have an understanding of how small they really are in the scheme of things.President Theodore Roosevelt loved to spend his summers on San Juan Island, in the waters...
Father's Day has come and gone. I have been thinking a lot about being a father the past couple of weeks. The question I have asked myself is: When does the son take on the father role? At the age of 31, I still view myself as a teenager bumbling his way through life,...