• According to Your Faith

  Robert Schuller shares the wonderful story about Olympic champion, Charlie Paddock who loved to speak to young people in high schools. At East Tech High School in Cleveland, Ohio, he challenged those young people: "If you think you can, you can! If you believe something strongly enough, it will come to pass in your life." Afterward he lifted his hand and said, "Who knows? Maybe there's an Olympic champion in this auditorium this afternoon."

• When God Puts on the Shelf

  "When things go wrong as they sometimes will, And the road you're trudging seems all uphill, When funds are low, and debts are high, You want to smile but you have to cry...." I'm sure most of us have felt this way on more than one occasion. I surely have. However, if we hang in and trust God he will, in all things, work for the good for

• The Power of One

  Some of us get discouraged because we don't feel that we are very gifted and don't have a lot to offer God in service to him. John Warr could have said to himself, "I'm just a shoemaker and don't have much to offer God." But he didn't. He just wanted God to use him and made himself available.

• He's Not Heavy - He's My Brother

  You may have read how "when Sadhu Sundar Singh and a companion were traveling through a pass high in the Himalayan Mountains. At one point they came across a body lying in the snow. Sundar Singh wished to stop and help the unfortunate man, but his companion refused, saying, 'We shall lose our lives if we burden ourselves with him.'

• Responsibility = Response Ability

  One of the great principles we need to emphasize to keep ourselves and our society healthy and productive is the principle of personal responsibility. It's a principle that needs, through repetition, to be programmed into our belief system. It needs to be taught and demonstrated in the home and at every level of society—including among the highest business and political leaders in our communities and nation.