“God gives us different passions so that everything He wants done in the world will get done.”
Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life
Do you remember finding a dream that you just couldn’t wait to pursue? You faced every day with a new (perhaps renewed!) enthusiasm and resolve! Sometimes, […]
Great inspiring people have influenced people in every area of life throughout centuries. Henry David Thoreau, the great 19th century transcendentalist writer, was influenced by the great Ralph Waldo Emerson. Thoreau was the impetus for Ghandi’s and Martin Luther King Jr’s civil disobedience, which ultimately changed the shape of the world for a better humanity. […]
“…Love your neighbor as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18, Mark 12:31).
Christians seem to have a tough time with this verse. We are told to love our neighbors and we are admonished to forget ourselves, but both the Old Testament and the New Testament remind us to love ourselves as well as our neighbors. The acronym JOY goes […]
In the streets of Bogot, a child - named Simon* - wanders amidst the crowd. He is a lonely soul, lost in the multitude, forgotten by humanity, rejected by his society.
He looks like any other child. His eyes are full of dreams and hope. Yet, at the tender age of 10, he knows of hunger […]