Other than scoring touchdowns, that's probably the thing that makes me the most happy. Helping other people.

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

Remember, Christ willed to be born poor, and He chose disciples who were living, for the most part, in poverty. Christ made Himself a servant of poor people. And He reminds us that whatever we do to help the least of the brethren--those most poor--we are personally ministering to Him.

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

You try and help something, and later on it bites you, so it's a hard decision, but as a country, as a nation, people need our help.

Fast offerings are used for one purpose only: to bless the lives of those in need.

I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.

Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to others. Our eternal investment portfolio should be full of the most strategic kingdom-building projects to which we can disburse God's funds.

The opportunities for using our financial resources to spread the gospel and strengthen the church all over the world are greater than they've ever been. As God raised up Esther for just such a time as hers, I'm convinced he's raise us up, with all our wealth, to help fulfill the great commission. The question is, what are we doing with that money? Our job is to make sure it gets to his intended recipients.

He says to use it "to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings" (Luke 16:9, NIV).

Yes," Marcus said. "The King is not gone, you know. He walks the planet, disguised as the needy.