Faith & Life
This helps believers who hope to become the fragrance of Christ live a right life of faith.
Turning a Weak Point into a Strong Point
A shark, the apex predator in the sea, has fatal weak points as a fish. It is that it doesn’t have an air-filled sac, namely, an air bladder which controls its buoyancy, and gill muscles. A shark has a liver…
A Blessed Mission, the Duty of Giving Love
A pastor couple of a small church used to live next door when I was young. As my mother was a close friend of them, I naturally started to attend their church because I had been a Christian since my…
Yeong-ye Cha from Gimhae, South Korea
Just Like Him
Just as a lighthouse guides ships sailing in the dark sea, you need a guide to lead you to the right path in your voyage of life. Such a guide is often called a role model. If you have a…
Life-saving Invention
Jack Andraka was a teenage boy who created revolutionary pancreatic cancer detection tool. A close friend of his family had suddenly died of pancreatic cancer and Andraka was in great sorrow. Then he started reading about the disease. Pancreatic cancer…
Filial Duty Starts from Love
Even little children know that they ought to carry out their filial duty for their parents. However, it is not easy even for adults to serve this matter 100% though they stand in the position where they teach their children…
At the Sound of the Daughter’s Cry
The only way of expression for babies is to burst into cry. So a mother is sensitive to her baby’s crying, and when her baby cries at night, she gets up reflexively. But there is a mother who woke up…
Assist in the Gospel Work
Penedo is a small town in the State of Alagoas, Brazil. In Penedo of which the population is less than seventy thousand, people spend time at home because it is difficult to get a job. Maybe because they have time,…
Lee Hye-jin from Penedo, Brazil
Weight
A man carrying his load complained to God. “Why do you give me such a big and heavy load while giving others small and light one?” God took him somewhere. There were all kinds of loads piled up there. “If…
My Younger Brother’s Egg Dishes
When my brother was little, he wanted to learn to cook eggs. So my mom gathered us and said, “Please eat the eggs he made no matter how bad they are.” The first time, the eggs were undercooked slightly. When…
Bianca Papapietro from Atlanta, GA, U.S.
Just by Looking at Mom in the Photo
The University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States conducted an experiment on children aged seven to twelve years. When they were asked to solve math problems before strangers, they were too nervous to solve them. After that, the children were…
The Value of the New Covenant
People are apt to make a wrong choice when they do not know the value of something; they may even make a choice that they will bitterly regret in the future. The seal of salvation, the grace of the forgiveness…
For the Co-worker in Danger
A man is being hung upside down, tied with a safety belt at the top of the pole, losing his consciousness. On the next pole another man is hanging, performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation for the unconscious man. What on earth has…
At the Flood Recovery Site
At the end of this summer, the southern part of Korea was hit by regional torrential rains. Even people who had lived in Busan for a long time said that they had never seen that much rain. Since it was…
Wahng Ga-ram from Busan, South Korea
Serving the Magistrate by Looking at His Clothes
A county magistrate disguised himself as a woodcutter to see how the people lived. While looking around the town, he felt thirsty and knocked on the gate of a rich man’s house nearby. “I’m a woodcutter passing by. I’m so…
Express Your Mind with a Pen!
Handwriting is one of the cultures that gradually disappear due to the popularization of computers and smart phones. As keyboard or touch screen enables you to easily send messages and letters, people rarely use a pen or a pencil these…
Digging Out Potatoes
On Sunday, May 25, we went out to help a potato farm as it was a harvest season. As you can find it everywhere nationwide, farming villages are shorthanded during their busy season. So we couldn’t miss the opportunity to…
Kim Dong-ho From Tongyeong, South Korea
If My Burden Is Heavy
In a horse race, each horse is to carry an assigned impost, which is a specified weight. It includes the weight of jockey, saddle, and saddle pad. Race horses carry different weights according to their age, gender, past performances, race…
Answer Me
A lady, who was tender with a very warm personality, lived next door. Her baby daughter was also well-behaved probably because she resembled her mom. The baby was not afraid of strangers and made no trouble, so I gave a…
Ji-min Yim from Gunpo, South Korea
Lake Wobegon Effect
Those who live around Lake Wobegon are almost perfect. Men are all handsome, women are strong, and children are smart. This town, where everyone believes with groundless self-confidence that (s)he is above average, is a fictional town that appears in…
The Most Valuable Work, the Most Special Blessing
Just like most other Korean dads, my life was also a series of days to go to work, seeing the stars early in the morning, and come back home, seeing the stars again late at night. Back then, I didn’t…
Choi Su-hyeon from Austin Town, India