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People from all over the Phoenix, Arizona are taking time to visit a supermarket in Scottsdale, because they know the cashier Joey Abston will encourage them. Abston’s mission is for every customer to leave his register with their groceries and a smile. He understands what it means to have a hard day,…

A new documentary, The Drop Box, tells the story of Pastor Lee Jong-rak, who founded South Korea’s first box for abandoned newborn babies. The film tells how Lee, once a dirty-tempered, skirt-chasing drunk, was transformed by a loving heavenly father to love his own child and other newborns and sick…

When Cherie Miller started a pay it forward chain reaction by opting to pay for the food in the car behind her, she did not realize that she would actually benefit from her own kindness. After starting the chain, Miller drove off, and a few blocks away realized that she had forgotten to get chicken nuggets…

Brittney Hanvey says she doesn't quite know what made her pull over to the side of the road to offer a homeless man a biscuit. But that seemingly small act set off a chain of events that helped transform a life. Hanvey, a member of First Baptist Church, Montgomery, Ala., is a pharmaceutical sales representative,…

Having not being notified of a hospital board meeting, Dr. Edwin West was the only Doctor available near the newborn nursery on a spring day back in 1976. A call went out for him to look at a prematurely born baby who had stopped breathing. He did mouth to face breathing, face because the baby’s face…

Most people equate church with feeding the soul, but a Michigan church is continuing a tradition to feeding both body and soul. Northridge Church in Plymouth Michigan has asked 300 community volunteers to help tend its 21,000 square foot garden. They plan to do better than they ever have, and deliver…

Christ’s earthly ministry wasn’t simply work; He loved every person He came across. I once read this story written by an evangelist: “I was once conducting a session with high school teenagers. I told them that they could ask me any question on any subject, and I would try and answer it. Their questions…

COMPASSION In his book, Conservative Victory, Sean Hannity writes, “But Jesus never directed that government be the agency used to help the poor. He was talking about charity proceeding from individuals and His church.” - Highlight Loc. 2698-99 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson. Psalm 41:1 (NASB) “How blessed…

Care, for the Lord Is Listening 22 You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. 23 If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry, 24 and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless. Exodus…

In football when a man is down and the whistle has blown and you jump on top of him, it’s called piling on, and you are penalized for it. In boxing when an opponent is staggering glassy-eyed or he can no longer defend himself, or is bleeding critically, the referee has the mandate to stop the fight.…

The President’s old fried Joshua Speed was at the White ‘louse for a visit, and the next morning watched while the President granted a request for the release of several draft registers whose case was presented by two ladies. When Speed and Lincoln were alone, the President said, “That old lady was no…

I would rather be cheated a hundred times than develop a heart of stone. - Tim Stafford Leadership, Summer 1995, page 41

During the Depression, a schoolteacher noticed a little girl who looked ill. The teacher said, “My dear, when you go home tonight, be sure you eat something, because you look ill.” “I can’t,” she replied. “Today is my sister’s day to eat.” Leadership, Winter 1995, page 64

To walk in another person’s shoes, you have to take off your own. - - Larry Wilson The One Minute Sales Person, Tape 2, Side B

On September 11, 1992, an unusual parking ticket was given on Piru Street in south-central Los Angeles. At 9:46 a.m. an officer wrote up the ticket for an illegally parked Cadillac. There was no question that the car was in violation. The driver did not object to the ticket. In fact, the driver didn’t…

The Hidden Heart This story was told to me by a friend of mine at the University of California at Berkeley. He was walking with a friend of his in downtown Berkeley one afternoon. The friend was discussing a very complex subject and without thinking he stepped off the curb almost into the path of an…

“Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.” - Longfellow Gospel Advocate, December 1, 1983, page 721

One day a student asked anthropologist Margaret Mead for the earliest sign of civilization in a given culture. He expected the answer to be a clay pot or perhaps a fish hook or grinding stone. Her answer was “a healed femur.” Mead explained that no healed femurs are found where the law of the jungle,…

A soldier called his mother from San Francisco Bay, Said, “Mother, I’ll be coming home, but hear me what I say. I want to bring a buddy, please, Mom, if you don’t mind. He has one leg, one arm, one eye, And he needs your love so kind.” The Mother told her soldier with a harsh and bitter tone, No, don’t…

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything. - Billy Graham Reader’s Digest, August 1996, page 31

Dr. Wm. Stivers tells about a little boy who saved his nickels to buy a puppy. One day he saw a sign “Puppies for Sale.” He hesitatingly knocked on the door of the large house and waited expectantly. The owner frowned when he saw that the caller was a small boy in overalls. “Do you really have puppies…

When a trout rising to a fly gets hooked and finds himself unable to swim about freely, he begins a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape....In the same way, the human being struggles…with the hooks that catch him. Sometimes he masters his difficulties; sometimes they…

Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself. - Marion Bradley, “Black Trillium” Reader’s Digest, July 1994, page 181

There are two kinds of people in this world – those who think there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don’t. The first group sees everything in terms of black and white, the second can spot some grays. I want to be in the second camp. It keeps me from playing God! Getting Together, Em…

My wife, Gail and I were in an airplane, seated almost at the back. As the plane loaded up, a woman with two small children came down the aisle to take the seat right in front of us. And behind her, another woman. The two women took the A and C seats, one of the children sat in the middle seat, and the…