Giving Self Story by William Barclay

Story title: Giving Self
By: William Barclay

    A very conscientious Christian lady looked back on her girlhood in a big city. She was from a well to do family and as she put it. "The poor were our pets." On Sunday it was the favorite charity of these superior Christians to make the rounds of the cells at the police station. The men in particular did this. They visited the week end drunks, lectured them, forced them to take the pledge, and then bailed them out of jail so they would be back to work on Monday.

If I Could Only Do It All Over Again Story

Story title: If I Could Only Do It All Over Again
By: Hans Dieter Schelauske

     Anyone celebrating any birthday beyond seventy is repeatedly pestered with the usual question, "What was the secret of you long life?"
     An elderly num, Sister Ruth, was asked," What would you do if you had a chance to do it all over again?"
    She said, "As you see, I'm a nun. As such, I belong to a group of orderly, organized people who live a regular and healthy life. So that's what I did, too. But there were times when I had my silly

Be Patient With our kid Story

Story title: Be Patient With our kid Story

          This is a true story which happened in the States. A man came out of his home to admire his new truck. To his puzzlement, his three year old son was happily hammering dents into the shiny paint of the truck. The man ran to his son, knocked him away, hammered the little boy's hands into pulp as punishment. When the father calmed down, he rushed his son to the hospital.

Heaven For The Humorist Story

Story title: Heaven For The Humorist
By: Tony Castle

     There is the story of an Irishman who died suddenly and went up for divine judgement. He felt very uneasy, for he didn't think he had done much good on earth. There was a long line of people ahead of him, so he settled down to look and listen.

Blood Brothers Story

Story title : Blood Brother Story
By: Readers' Digest

   Louis Soto drove more than one thousand miles so he could roll up his sleeve and give to the blood bank in a faraway city.
    He wants to give blood in every state capital in the USA. He has already given blood in every major city and town in his home state of Virginia. To date he has personally given more than one hundred liters of blood over 30 years.

Generosity Story

Story title: Generosity
By: Edmund Fuller

   This story is about an earthquake in China. When it happened, a farmer was standing on a hilltop surrounded by his rice fields. Suddenly he saw the ocean rush away from the shore like some large animal crouching for a leap. He knew that leap would be a devastating tidal wave.
   He saw his neighbors working in the low rice fields, and when that tidal wave came back, they would all be swept away by its force. Somehow he had to call them to the safety of his hill.

A Christ Centered Prison Story

Story title: A Christ Centered Prison Story
By: Charles Colson in Christianity today

   Humaita Prison in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, houses 350 offenders. For the past 18 years it has been run not by the State but by Christian volunteers who became part of Prison Fellowship Brazil several years ago.
   I have been in prisons in 31 countries and in half the prisons in America. I have never seen an institution like Humaita. Its secret is more than just humane conditions and job training, crucial as these things are. The secret is found in a small cell in the prison's high security area.