If money is our chief motivation for going to work every day, we will feel worthless when we can no longer hold a paying job. If the desire to serve others is our chief motivation, there will always be something worthwhile and useful for us to do.
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Self Help or Helping Others?
In my younger years, before I was a Christian, I read most of the well-known self-help books on the market. I was disappointed with the whole lot of them.In The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale took a verse from the Bible and told me to recite it over and over, much like a … Continue reading Self Help or Helping Others?
Christianity: it’s not all about me
Nine years ago we were living in a little village north of Saskatoon. One day early in the year the phone rang and when I answered a voice with a pronounced southern accent said, "My name is Jay Bullock and I hear you are having Vacation Bible School up there this summer and I wonder … Continue reading Christianity: it’s not all about me
Old age is not a disease
I had a birthday a couple of years ago. They come every year, for me as for most people, but this was the one that marked me definitively as being an old man. I told my family and friends that I did not want anyone telling me that I was 70 years young. I was … Continue reading Old age is not a disease
Do we well?
There is an account in the Old Testament of a time when the Syrian armies laid siege around the city of Samaria until the people of the city were about to perish of starvation. There were four lepers at the gate of Samaria who were also near death from starvation. One night they decided to … Continue reading Do we well?