Faith & Life
This helps believers who hope to become the fragrance of Christ live a right life of faith.
The Last Opportunity
Gurye, located between Mount Jirisan and the Seomjingang River, is famous for persimmons. However, an embankment along the Seomjingang River collapsed due to torrential rain, and the persimmon farms were severely affected. Restoration efforts had to be made quickly to…
Kim Shin-hyeong from Gwangju, South Korea
A Cup Warning of Overflow
In the late Joseon Dynasty in Korea, there was a potter named Woo Myeong-ok in a mountain village of Gangwon-do Province. He wanted to make beautiful porcelain beyond the earthenware, so he entered the Bunwon, which produced porcelain for the…
Keep Your Face as Bright as Sunshine
The weather is not only in the sky, but also on the face. A cold look, a warm smile, a bright look like sunshine, and a gloomy look like dark clouds … . Facial expressions are compared to weather. Just…
To Keep a Dying Boy Alive
In September 2018, an eight-year-old boy was carried to a hospital in Changzhou, Jiangsu, China. His illness was fulminant myocarditis. It is very urgent illness that causes cardiac arrest due to sudden inflammation in the muscles surrounding the heart. Doctors…
Power of Change
Recently, a new sister received the blessing of leading her younger sister to God. She loves God’s word. Whenever she had time, she would come to Zion to study the Bible even though she was tired from work, and she…
Lim Chia Kee from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
An Impressive Race
This happened at the women’s 5,000-meter run in the Rio Olympics 2016. Some athletes were running in the second group when New Zealand athlete Hamblin tripped and fell, causing USA’s Abbey D’Agostino to fall. Abbey would feel aggrieved, but she…
Mother’s Love Is Special
Some say that our life on earth is based on love. In fact, when you look into how a person is born into this world and grows over time, that sounds right, because we are all connected with one another…
Bayasakh Oyunbat from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
The Medici Effect
The Medici Effect refers to a phenomenon which inspires breakthrough insights or produces great productivity when different fields come together. This means “1+1>2” instead of “1+1=2.” It is derived from the House of Medici in Italy. From the 14th century…
Walking with Heavenly Father and Mother
One Sunday, on my way to a church that my relatives introduced to me, nearby my matrimonial house, I met members from the Church of God. They delivered to me news like a bolt out of the blue—the cross is…
Park Chan-jeong from Jeju, South Korea
Two Fools
Two men were working in the mountain. One man dug a hole, then the other man filled up the hole with dirt. Moving from place to place, they repeated digging holes and filling them up. A man watching their work…
The Power of Gratitude
A paper titled “Undervaluing Gratitude” was published in the Sage Journals in June 2018. Psychologists Amit Kumar and Nicholas Epley, co-authors of the paper, asked the participants to write gratitude letters to their friends or acquaintances. The participants were also…
A Habit, the Beginning of Change
From the moment you wake up in the morning until you fall asleep at night, you do countless actions. However, you do not worry about how to wash, in what order to wear clothes, and how to use spoons when…
Mother’s Special Lesson
In the Bible, youth is likened to the dew of the dawn. The pure and clean dew of the dawn is beautiful but it is seen only for a while. Though young adults receive great blessings in the time of…
Kim Min-cheol from Anyang, South Korea
The Tomb of Words
Four or five hundred years ago in Korea, there was a village where people were divided into groups with the same family name and argued each other almost every day. Quarrels arouse mostly because of a minor word of someone.…
When I Was Three Years Old
I happened to take care of a three-year-old daughter of my acquaintance for hours. My parents, who were out with me, picked her up together and headed home. My parents looked very happy, probably because they had little opportunity for…
Park Yun-jeong from Seongnam, South Korea
Loss Aversion Bias
Between the joy of picking one hundred-dollar bill on the road and the agony of losing it, which emotion do you think is bigger? People usually choose the latter one. This is because they feel the agony of losing more…
A Scientist Who Loved Corn
American scientist Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) questioned why a corn has several colors of kernels and they changed their positions in different corns. In her research, she discovered Jumping Genes, which move from one chromosomal location to another. As it was…
How to Defeat a Devastator
Wasps that are five times larger than honey bees are natural enemies of honey bees. While honey bees can sting only once and die after attacking, a single wasp is capable of stinging multiple times and is highly venomous. What…
No Graffiti! Yes Clean and Safe Town! 1
Graffiti is a headache in Australia because it does not look good aesthetically and gives a negative impression that the “area is not safe” to local residents. On a mild sunny Sunday morning, from the early hours on, about eighty…
Ju Su-jin from Sydney, Australia
How to Double Happiness
After entering college, I participated for the first time in a street cleanup held by the club. I picked up garbage, and by the time I got to a smoking area, I was surprised to find hundreds of cigarette butts…
Jeon Beom-jun from Jeonju, South Korea