By Jinyan

Li Xin is a co-worker in a church. Over the years of her belief in the Lord, she has always enthusiastically expended and worked for the Lord and has suffered and paid a price for Him. No matter what the church needed her to do, she would actively do it; even when faced with the danger of being arrested and persecuted by the CCP, she still persisted in spreading the gospel. She firmly believed that her forsaking and expending for the Lo ... Read more »

By Xinling

Editor’s Note:

Ling Ran is a designer at an advertising agency. When her old friend outperformed her at work and gradually began to receive the approval and regard of co-workers, she was seized by a feeling of jealousy that coiled round her heart and devoured her happiness like a venomous snake. This jealousy left her in a state of agony out of which she was powerless to escape. So, how did Ling Ran free herself of jealousy and reestablish her old friendship by relying on God?

Competing With a Friend, A Miserable Existence

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By Fangxia, Brazil

Pastors Were the People I Respected Most

“Hey, Sister Fang, a pastor from outside the town is here to preach to us, are you coming to hear it?”

“Of course I’m coming. I always go when pastors come to preach.”

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By Fangxia, Brazil

Pastors Were the People I Respected Most

“Hey, Sister Fang, a pastor from outside the town is here to preach to us, are you coming to hear it?”

“Of course I’m coming. I always go when pastors come to preach.”

…< ... Read more »

By Gengxin, Australia
“Amen, amen I say unto you: that whosoever committeth sin, is the servant of sin. Now the servant abideth not in the house for ever; but the son abideth for ever” (John 8:34–35).

——Epigraph

“The Lord Jesus was nailed to the cross to absolve us of our sins so that we are ... Read more »

By Zhang Ju

“Mom, I know your work is very tiring and I also know it is my job to study. But I’m under too much pressure. I’m just an ordinary man who would feel tired and need rest. Could you give me some space and time and let me take a breath? Living like this is so exhausting that I even feel it’d be better to die,” cried my son.

Whenever I thought of these words of my son, scenes of how I forced him to study in the past would replay in my mind …

I beca ... Read more »

By Jiang Ping

Introduction: The most regrettable thing in life is to obtain a treasure, only to throw it away. I welcomed the Lord in the last days but because I was bound by my own notions, I passed God’s salvation by and was left wallowing in my regrets. However, thanks to the Lord’s mercy I was able to regain the salvation that I had lost and had the good fortune to meet wit ... Read more »

By Yuqing

Exasperated by Her Son’s Poor Grade

“Good evening, parents. Thanks for your taking time out of your schedule to attend this parent teacher meeting. Now I’ll give you your child’s report card….” said the head teacher on the platform. After taking Xiaojie’s report card and seeing the number “79” written very clearly, Yuqing muttered, shaking her head: “That’s it, he is finished. He has good grades in math, but he only got 79 marks out of 100; what if he can’t get into high school? He’s greatly disappointed me.” At the thought of this, the anger uncontrollably raised its head inside of he ... Read more »

By Song Ling

Children’s Excessive Consumption Brought Their Mothers Annoyance

One Sunday, I was chatting with several mothers in Lan Bei Park.

Aunt Liu said helplessly, “Yesterday my child spent a few hundred yuan on four dresses. Today she is going to eat at a restaurant with her friends. She doesn’t feel any regrets for spending money, as if it were got without pains. No matter what I say, she won’t listen, and when I talk too much, she will get peeved off. Alas, I really cannot control her.”

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By Yanzhen, Taiwan

I started to believe in the Lord since I was little, and I am the fourth generation of believers in my family. After I got married and moved to Taiwan in 2005, I continued taking part in serving the church and actively attended Bible study groups and all kinds of classes, and I really enjoyed having gatherings and reading the Bible together with my brothers and sisters. But good times don’t last long. In 2008, I found that the pastor always preached on the same old things, to the point that in the Lord’s Day meetings, as long as I took a look at the topic on the leaflet, I would know what he would preach, which verses he ... Read more »