If you give to God out of your surplus, is that really even giving? Does God value non-sacrificial giving?

When Sara first came to understand that Jesus is God, she thought that she was the only person in her entire country to follow Jesus. She even baptized herself with a cup of water.

Kings and queens, with their colorful pageantry and coronation regalia, are still fascinating to us in this post-modern age.

The refugees arrive exhausted and without any belongings. But Yuri and Nadia don't hesitate to offer help to the broken men and women arriving in their community.

Those who have suffered because of following Jesus, all seem to come to the same unwavering conclusion. 

She was a maverick--a 28-year-old Cambridge-educated doctor who, in 1953, went to work in what was then called the Congo.

Incurvatos in se.  It's the curious Latin term that the North African theologian, Augustine, used to describe one of the things that sin does to us. 

Is that all there is?  That's what a little 9-year-old girl asked herself.

Sex, heaven and hell are pretty weighty topics.  But Jesus Christ spoke more about another topic than any of these.

Think about the great ruins of the world-- the Pyramids of Egypt or Stonehenge in England.  Ruins make us stop and wonder, what happened here?