Faith & Life
This helps believers who hope to become the fragrance of Christ live a right life of faith.
Motive for Voluntary Services
One foggy morning, the members from Santiago and La Florida, Chile, gathered to participate in the blood drive despite the cold weather. The hospital was very crowded with more than 400 volunteers. So, some of us had to move to…
Jose David Ancamil Rocha from Santiago, Chile
Liebig’s Law of the Minimum
There is a law called Liebig’s Law of the Minimum. This was announced by Justus von Liebig, a German chemist. It states that the growth of plants is controlled not by the total amount of available resources, but by the…
Looking for the Narrow Gate That Leads to Life
Around 2008, I began to notice all the signs of various disasters around the world more and more frequently. I had heard that such disasters were prophesied in the Bible as the signs of the last days. I came to…
Carly Dinnie from Middletown, CT, U.S.
Organizing Skill
There are many objects and lots of information around us. However, do we need all of them? If we think about this matter carefully, we can easily realize that we don’t need them all. Liz Davenport, a famous organization consultant,…
A Fruit Taught Me Patience
I went out to preach the gospel at Osasco Center and met a lady near the subway station. She lived in Itapevi, about an hour and a half away by car from Osasco. She had visited many churches, but she…
Jeon Myeong-hui from Sao Paulo, Brazil
Give a Cheerful High Five!
High five is an action to celebrate victory or to express happiness in which two people raise one arm each and hit their open hands together. Sports players often do high fives to improve teamwork during games. A study says…
A Boat Waiting for High Tide
Steel King Andrew Carnegie kept an old painting in his office. The painting he treasured was neither a masterpiece drawn by a famous artist nor an antique that was highly worth possessing. It was just a humble painting of a…
100
The highest point on most exams is 100. When expressing something that is satisfied or full, the number 100 is used in a percentage. Even at 99℃, the water stays still, but when it reaches 100℃, it boils. So the…
My Son’s Talent Show
On the day when I moved to the new home, I quickly unpacked all the stuff and was preparing to attend the Third-day service. Then, my husband received a pleasant call from a member; he told us to come to…
Eom Jin-suk from Seoul, South Korea
For Perfect Product
A person drops a cell phone from one meter high, puts it in a 360 degrees rotating box continuously, and even pours water on it. What is more, a person who weighs about 100 kg (220 lb) sits on it…
Grit Score
At Harvard University, they had a study on 130 students. They designed a study and asked students to run for up to five minutes on a treadmill with the maximum speed set. Running was over just in few minutes, but…
Human Body, the Greatest Gift
A single car has about 25,000 parts, and a Boeing 747 has over 45 million parts. Then, what about the human body? Our body has about 10 trillion cellular tissues, 25 trillion red blood cells, and 25 billion white blood…
If You Desire Eagerly . . .
“. . . If you want to do something, desire it eagerly.” I had spent a long time as a fruitless branch although I had always fed on the nourishing sap from God who is the vine. I wanted to…
Ji-ye Lee from Daegu, South Korea
Wrong and Different
8 What is it? It looks like a driving course to a traffic manager. It is a code to those who work with equipment. It is the number eight or the infinity symbol to a mathematician. Everybody is right. Nobody…
The Goodness of a Person Spreads
I believe everyone has ever, at least once, been attracted on the street to sweet smell of new bread wafting through the air. This smell of bread does not only stimulate people’s appetite but also make people kinder. The researchers…
Power of Unity: Many a Mickle Makes a Muckle
The members of the Church of God in Cape Town carried out a cleanup campaign. We were organized into four groups to meticulously clean up each allocated area. When the time to finish the cleanup came, all the members gathered.…
The Church of God in Cape Town, South Africa
Wind Chill Temperature
There are two ways to know the temperature: the actual temperature measured by the thermometer and the wind chill temperature felt by the body. The wind chill temperature is produced on the basis of wind strength, humidity, and solar heat…
Adhesive Bandages for His Loving Wife
Newlywed Earle Dickson had one concern; it’s about his careless wife. She often cut herself or got burns on her fingers while cooking. At that time, as he was working in a company producing surgical tape, he could treat his…
According to What You Have Done
No one idles away his days, not doing any work. When a man is born, work devours him until his last breath on earth. Even people who seem to do nothing, they eat, sleep, and think. While all people are…
Fast Alone? Together Though Taking Time
There is a sister whose faith grew so much around the time of the Passover. She participated in preaching with great joy that members around her were energized. One day, I preached the Passover to a passerby with the sister.…
Incheon, South Korea