The Church of the Shrunken Heads
I could walk to the museum when I was a boy in Kansas City. Of all the wonders I saw there, the shrunken head was the most alluring. I could envision how it was made to shrink. It was inset in the wall, blackened, menacing, exotic, jaw-dropping, and . . . fake.
It was years later that scientists discovered that 80% of the shrunken heads displayed around the country were not human heads, but those of monkeys or sloths, or the mere handicraft of an enterprising native made from goatskin.
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Only One Thing Necessary
If you were given the option during 
a particular period of time (say, one hour) to either breathe, drink water, eat, or sleep, which activity would you choose?
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Doe The Nexte Thynge
Dreaming about and planning for future ministry endeavors is appropriate, but we must always fulfill current obligations. We still have to wake up tomorrow and take care
of the children or go to work. Bills must be paid. You might have classes to attend or urgent emails to write. Perhaps someone close to us gets very sick and needs attentive care. And along with personal responsibilities come fears and worries. How will we make it financially this month? What is it going to take to get that stubborn child to obey, and what if he continues to rebel? What if I lose my job? Will we be able to keep the house?
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The Reluctant Mother: Amy Carmichael
We can't always identify life-changing moments as they occur. When a little Indian girl named Preena crawled into Amy Carmichael's lap and called her "Amma" (or "mother" in Tamil) for the first time, neither of them could have known that this simple act would change both their lives forever, and the lives of hundreds of others.
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