Faith & Life
This helps believers who hope to become the fragrance of Christ live a right life of faith.
Mother’s Love That Bears Everything
When I started attending school, I was excited that I would meet new friends whom I could play and learn with. However, my mother was not like me; from the beginning of the semester, my mom walked me to my…
Judy Anne Gaquit from General Santos, Philippines
Promise
This is the definition of “promise.” However, since no one knows what will happen to them tomorrow, though they make a solemn oath, they often break it unintentionally due to unexpected circumstances. And if it is impossible to reach the…
The World Is Short-Tempered: Let’s Correct It at My Home First!
Nowadays, people become more and more impatient, being unable to control their anger. A driver, who was driving on a highway, got angry as another driver changed the lane, and stopped his car suddenly; the car behind him was able…
Scarcity Error
Such advertising terms as “Limited Offer Today Only,” “The First Hundred People Receive,” or “Only While Stocks Last!” are a strategy to promote consumer confidence. The fact that there’s limited time to purchase assigns scarcity, and people think getting rare…
If We Deliver the Love of Mother
A special event was held in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. More than a hundred members from the Church of God gathered to clean up street for the first time. They divided teams; the male adults gathered the trash with…
Jo Su-bin from Incheon, South Korea
The Role of One Person
A few years ago, an unprecedented incident occurred at a marathon held in the U.K. About 5,000 runners were all disqualified except only one person. The story goes as follows. The first-placed runner was quite away from the second-placed runner.…
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