Faith & Life
This helps believers who hope to become the fragrance of Christ live a right life of faith.
Older Sister’s Confession of Love
It was the Lunar New Year holidays during the winter vacation when I was in the second grade of elementary school. My aunt, who had lived close at hand and moved to a remote city, visited our home. We were…
Han Yu-mi from Changwon, South Korea
Once You Start
Do you happen to know Writer’s Block? It is a condition where an author cannot start a new work because of the fear that he might not create a great one. The best way to break down this barrier is…
Probability of Success
Picasso, the best painter in the 20th century, drew about 20,000 paintings, and Einstein, the world-famous physicist, wrote about 240 theses. Bach, a German composer and musician, composed a choir song every week, and Mozart composed more than 600 works.…
Return to God
When I was young, I worked out in the sea for a few years. Whenever I was out in the sea far from the land, I felt like I was growing away from God. Strictly speaking, I’d already grown away…
Chu Myeong-guk from Changwon, South Korea
“What Is Love?”
“When you tell your friend you like his shirt, then he wears it every day.” “During my piano recital, I felt scared on a stage. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling.…
True Filial Duty Starts from Understanding
Whenever I read a Bible verse, “Anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me” (Mk 8:34), I was reminded of my family. My father, who received a pastoral education in a Protestant church…
Lee Si-won from Incheon, South Korea
In Order to Save My Brother
In April, 2013, a primary school girl and a boy, who are siblings, were on their way home from a study room in Seoul, Korea. They saw some children jumping up and down on the plate of a flood pumping…
Precious Life, Precious Gospel
While preaching in a mall, I met a woman who had just started to believe in God. When a member and I asked if we could show her about God the Mother who is testified in the Bible, she said,…
Joy Padua from Chicago, IL, U.S.
A Note That Changed a Thief’s Mind
Eileen was a visiting nurse in a small resort city in the U.K. She rode a bike whenever she visited patients. One day, when she came out of a patient’s home after counseling and treatment, the bike vanished. As she…
Even with a Little Act
The International University Student Bible Academy [IUBA] is an education program of the Church of God, through which college students go abroad and enlarge their experience during their school break. I, too, joyfully volunteered for it, wanting to have a…
Lee Jeong-yeon from Bucheon, South Korea
What the Brain Does Not Know
Our body moves as the brain orders. If the brain loses its function, other parts of the body cannot play their roles properly, so the brain is the most important part of the body. The brain receives a great quantity…
The Worry That I Had for Nineteen Years Has Turned to Joy I Cannot Contain
“ . . . You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of…
Seo Mi-gyeong from Seoul, South Korea
That’s Not Me!
“That’s not me!” You might have reassured yourself with this thought at some point in your life. While watching TV or browsing the Internet, you may have thought that lewd or violent content may adversely affect others, but not yourself.…
Time to Reap Wheat
I work at the office of a construction site, where there is a laboratory to measure the solidity of cement. Earlier this year, we had a new director who is in charge of the lab. From the first day, I…
Ham Hye-jeong from Goyang, South Korea
The Power of Words
“Be careful with your words. Once they are spoken, they can be only forgiven, not forgotten.” “The tongue has no bones, but it’s strong enough to break a heart.” There are many quotes concerning the way we use our words.…
Every Family Member Is the House Owner!
If the strength of a person pulling a rope is 100, theoretically it should be 200 for two persons and 300 for three persons. However, the result of an experiment with a tug of war showed that the power of…
My Daughter’s Comfort
“Mom! I got one question wrong by mistake in the test today. I could’ve got it right ...” My daughter expressed her frustration as soon as she got home. “It’s okay, dear. You can do better next time! Is there…
Na Su-yeon from Wonju, South Korea
In Unity
Chlorine [Cl] is a very toxic gas. If chlorine [Cl] and sodium [Na] combine, they become salt [NaCl], which is indispensable for our life. The process of forming water is similar. When hydrogen [H], that is flammable, is combined with…
A Note from Baby Twins
“Hello! We’re twin baby boys on our first flight, and we’re only fourteen weeks old! We’ll try to be on our best behavior, but we’d like to apologize in advance just in case we become uncomfortable, get scared, or our…
Getting Rid of the Old Yeast
Last Sunday, I volunteered to paint a school located near our church with the brothers and sisters from the 5th Lima Church in Peru. This time, my husband and my son were also able to join it. My family hadn’t…
Luz Angela Benites Carpio from Lima, Peru