One Man’s Family
Oh my friend, do not have children! You bring them into the world and they send you out of it. You give them life, and they give you your death […]
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A Gift We Will Love
It was December 22nd and the mother of several children suddenly realized that she hadn’t sent out any Christmas cards. In dismay, she sent her 10-year-old son to the drugstore
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Don’t Forget The Baby!
A woman named Betty tried to cram all of her Christmas preparations into a single day. Starting at 9 a.m., she shopped her entire Christmas list, bought a Christmas tree
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It’s Time To Move On
One Sunday morning a certain country preacher opened a sermon on faith with these words: My dear brothers and sisters, your fields are drying up and you have come here
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Take A Flying Leap
On his return from a trip into the wilds, a birdwatcher told this story of an encounter with a bear… I was hiking through the woods, he said, and came
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Reset Your Clock
There once was a small iron-working town where the mills were kept running day and night. The great steam-hammers, some of them weighing several tons, were night and day beating
Someday?
A woman arrived at a prayer meeting which was already in progress … She spotted a vacant chair and asked the man who was sitting next to it, ìIs this
Well Done!
A popular preacher once delivered a sermon entitled ìGodís Ownershipî … Later that day he was invited to the home of a rich parishioner. The wealthy man conducted the preacher
To Cry Out, ìNo!î
When a new parish church was built in an upper middle class suburb, Sunday mornings in the immediate neighborhood were no longer as quiet as they used to be …
Heaven is Waiting
Near the end of his life, the Roman Emperor Severus gave a kind of farewell speech to his countrymen. In it he summed up his life of fame and power
Something Special!
A proud mother wrote, My daughter, Francesca was about four years old when she first became aware that numbers were not just new words in her vocabulary or names for
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True Art of Living
There is a ìPeanutsî cartoon in which little Linus is afraid to go to the library … Charlie Brown tries to relieve him of his fears, saying, ìEveryoneís lonely in
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Your Hope of Glory
ìDear Lord,î you pray, ìI am at the end of all my resources.î ìDear child,î the Lord answers, ìYouíre just at the beginning of Mine.î Godís resources extend far beyond
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Children’s Sunday Sermons
July 6, 2008 Good morning boys and girls. I hope you all got enough rest last night. Iím sure you know how important it is to get enough sleep every
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More Than Good Intentions
The father of a twenty-four-year-old daughter and a twenty-three-year-old son formulated the following telephone answering machine message to respond to calls from his grownup offspring … “Hello, I’m sorry I’m
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How Do You Do?
The story of the field laborers in today’s Gospel Lesson begins with Jesus’ statement, “Now the Kingdom of Heaven is like …” (Mt.. 20:1). The owner of the vineyard hires
That We Believe!
John 3:16 is one of the verses contained in today’s Gospel Reading. Over the years, professional football fans have been given regular glimpses of this Scripture citation on their TV
Tying Up The Cat?
“What’s in a name?” Shakespeare’s Juliet asks in “Romeo and Juliet.” What’s in a name, indeed! There is an old baseball story about a game in which the Cleveland Indians
Without Question
Who among us is here today for some vague reason? Who among us is here today because it’s the thing to do once a week — a weekly routine? More
In The Commonplace
A young playwrite was extremely gratified when an important New York City critic agreed to attend the opening of his first Broadway play … The critic came to the opening
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