Faith & Life
This helps believers who hope to become the fragrance of Christ live a right life of faith.
A Heart More Beautiful than a Crown
Khanittha “Mint” Phasaeng, a 17-year-old girl, won a beauty contest in Thailand in 2015. As soon as the contest was over, Khanittha ran straight to her mother and kneeled down before her to thank her for raising her. The mother,…
A Beautiful Mind
With the hope of giving our neighbors in need even a little bit of help so they could get through the winter, we planned a volunteer service to deliver the warmth of Mother’s love with Zion members. It was to…
Choi Yun-heui from Daegu, South Korea
A Lesson from a Spider
A troop of a country was defeated in a battle; it was almost wiped out. The general, who barely survived and hid in a cave with his remnants, decided to kill himself in shame and took out his sword. Then,…
Make a Family Cheer Song!
A song has the power to make people closer together. The sense of closeness increases while all sing along the rhythm and melody in unison. Sports supporters and marching soldiers become one in mind by chanting together. What about a…
With Absolute Faith and Mother’s Love
I had desired to be a child of God since a long time ago, and I had been to many different denominations including the Catholic and Protestant churches. However, none of them convinced me that they were the true church.…
Surimon Jindaprapaporn from Bangkok, Thailand
In the Apple Orchard
Whenever the harvest season comes, farmers need a lot of helping hands. They are so busy that Koreans describe the situation this way: “Even a poker which is used for stirring the fire has no time to lie on the…
Lee Sahng-hwa from Daegu, South Korea
Good Weather
Just because the sun is hot, wind blows fiercely, or it rains, are you sometimes in a subdued mood or irritated? Sunlight helps generate vitamin D in the human body, and becomes the source of photosynthesis in plants. Rain washes…
Mother of Six Children
My mom was a very kind and calm person. She used to read to me with a soft voice, and I liked it so much. I was brought up like a princess until I was five years old, when my…
Eun-jin Jo from Changwon, South Korea
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…