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giving to others

Posted by marvin williams on August 5th, 2010 | 5 responses
Rebekah Rushing who was a high-level assistant at Enron Corporation before it collapsed due to accounting fraud in 2001, demonstrated that ethics is much more than not doing wrong. She went beyond looking... read more »

receiving and deceiving

Posted by regina franklin on August 4th, 2010 | 13 responses
My husband and I were leaving a restaurant one evening when a distraught couple approached us. Their story? Car problems. From out of town. Waiting for their ride. We responded with compassion,... read more »

God is coming

Posted by winn collier on July 28th, 2010 | 4 responses
Recently, two pygmy sperm whales lay stranded near a New Zealand beach. Though volunteers, led by conservation officer Malcolm Smith, worked tirelessly, they couldn’t coax the beached whales back out... read more »

community or clique?

Posted by mike wittmer on July 16th, 2010 | 8 responses
Birds of a feather flock together. That’s why you never see a robin flying wingman in a “V” formation of geese or a crow hanging out with hummingbirds (actually, crows are mean enough that they don’t... read more »

none of my business?

Posted by poh fang chia on July 13th, 2010 | 7 responses
When we first read the book of Obadiah, it’s easy to regard its contents as little more than a prophetic tirade in which God’s wrath is directed toward Israel’s enemies. We see His wrath and the... read more »

deliverance

Posted by roxanne robbins on July 5th, 2010 | 10 responses
A 10-year-old human trafficking victim is freed from a brothel in Southeast Asia where she had been abused and sexually exploited. Another child, age 9, is released from indentured slavery in India. Meanwhile,... read more »

ken cooper’s kitten

Posted by sheridan voysey on June 11th, 2010 | 3 responses
In 1983, Ken Cooper’s 3-year career as an armed felon ended when he was sentenced to 99 years in Florida’s infamous prison—The Rock. With just five guards controlling 900 inmates, The Rock was a... read more »

who needs relationship?

Posted by poh fang chia on May 23rd, 2010 | 4 responses
Emperor Frederick carried out an isolation experiment to try and determine humanity’s original language. He reasoned that infants would eventually speak the natural tongue of humans if they were sheltered... read more »

small and large

Posted by mike wittmer on May 13th, 2010 | 11 responses
How big is the kingdom of God? Jesus said it begins small, like a mustard seed or a pinch of yeast, and it grows until it permeates “every part of the dough” (13:21). It’s large enough for birds... read more »

leaving your edges

Posted by marvin williams on May 11th, 2010 | 3 responses
Bono, the lead singer for the band U2, is a humanitarian par excellence. He headlined the humanitarian efforts of Band Aid and Live Aid to fight poverty in Ethiopia two decades ago. He continues to make... read more »
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