Faith & Life
This helps believers who hope to become the fragrance of Christ live a right life of faith.
Something Much More Valuable than a Jewel
A woman bought a coat in a store. She came back home and tried on her new clothes again. When she put her hand inside the pocket, she got surprised. A jewel was in it! “I can keep this because…
Dad’s Most Concerned Child
I am the third oldest one of four daughters. There is an old joke in Korea, “The third oldest daughters are so pretty that men are willing to take them as their wives without even seeing them.” However, I was…
Ha Jeong-oh from Jinju, South Korea
Though Living a Single Day
As we don’t need to teach fish how to swim, so we don’t need to talk about a short life before mayflies. Mayflies live for a very short time as an adult. Their lifespan varies by species; the maximum time…
Better Is Two than One, Three than Two
You can often see trash and graffiti in many streets of Recife, Brazil. Regular cleanups were needed, but it was more urgent to change the way people think about the environment. That’s why we visited a TV station before the…
The Recife Church in Brazil
What Was Most Difficult
One reporter asked a runner who finished a marathon. “What was most difficult during the run?” then an unexpected answer came back to him: “What was difficult more than being thirsty and controlling my breathing was the coarse sand that…
Say Good Morning!
In the past in Korea, there were manners in which children greeted their parents with regards every morning. After washing and dressing neatly, they greeted their parents and arranged their bedding or brought water for their washing up. In this…
Fruit of Patience Borne in Chana
The Bhopal Zion is blessed with many young adults, thanks to Heavenly Mother who prays day and night for Her children. Under the consideration of male and female adult members, we can only focus on preaching and welcoming new brothers…
Shivansh Gupta from Bhopal, India
Children like Isaac
Just as people say a day without laughter is a day wasted, laughing is the best medicine. Laughing is contagious. If you laugh, many good things happen. However, people don’t laugh very well. Perhaps, there may be nothing to laugh…
Jo Mun-gyeong from Daejeon, South Korea
Overcome to the End
No matter how good a product is, unless it is neatly finished, its value drops considerably. It is the same with the wood for a pillar. In order to set up a pillar strong enough to support the weight of…
Parents’ Love that Rejoices Over a Child Who Returned
For parents, the ones who are beautiful and lovely like flowers must be their children. Anything in this world cannot be compared with the devotional love of parents; they can even give up their lives for their children, the source…
John Pariyar from Kathmandu, Nepal
Fathers’ Dream
After taking the SAT, some high school students were asked of what their dreams were. Their answers varied: making debut as a singer, traveling around the world, eating fried chicken as much as they want, farming on the school ground,…
Conditions of a Good Leader
Among the analects left by Genghis Khan who built the Mongol Empire, there’s a quote about his favorite servant whom he felt sorry for. “Yesun Bei is a great warrior. He does not get tired after a long battle. Therefore,…
When You Turn Off the TV, You Will See Your Family
The word television comes from Ancient Greek tèle, meaning far, and vision, meaning sight. As the word explains itself, television is a broadcast system which allows us to see what is going on in a far-off place, even on the…
A Trip That Turned Back Time
In 1979, a newspaper in the State of Ohio, U.S., put an advertisement for a one week free trip for eight elderly people in their late 70s to early 80s. The elderly people were selected and arrived in a remote…
I Have Finally Met the Truth
Sister Jayshree is a nurse. Whenever she has a chance, she preaches the gospel to the patients who come to her hospital. Among them, there were a pastor and his wife who came to her hospital from the countryside for…
The Nashik Church, India
From What I Can Do
John Wood who was working as an executive for a major company went to a Himalayan remote area in Nepal for his holidays. There he saw students having classes, being densely seated in the dirt. He was shocked and made…
Well Done!
A mother wheeled a stroller into the elevator. The hair of the child sitting in the stroller was shinny and eye-catching. Then I noticed a mark on his wrist. It was like a “Well Done” stamp. “Hi. What’s on your…
Choi Seok-hui from Seongnam, South Korea
Love Written on Napkins
Garth Callaghan, a common head of an American family, is such a sweet dad who packs his daughter’s lunch box. Every day, he wrote a good writing such as a proverb on napkins of the lunch box to express his…
The Way to Change a Troublemaker
There was a teacher who called the names of the children in her class peculiarly like cute who, wise who, and who of strong sense of responsibility. There was a well-known troublemaker in her class. She even named him as…
Actor–Observer Bias
If you are late for work, you justify yourself that there were enough reasons for it such as a traffic jam or a long bus interval. But if your coworker is late, you regard him as a lazy person. If…