High Hopes!
Advent is the Season of high hopes and expectations. Little children wonderfully sum up the Advent Spirit in three little words: “Christmas is coming!” Christmas: that beacon of high hopes […]
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Please Take Us Back!
In today’s Gospel episode, John the Baptist announces to his followers the imminent coming of the Messiah: the Lord Jesus Christ. And, in so doing, he begins the process of
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Follow The Star
The Jewish humorist, Isaac Asimov, has told the story of a Yiddish play being performed in a little theatre on New York City’s Second Avenue … During the play, the
HIS WAY
In America’s Southwest there is a little town in which the three main streets are named “This Way,” “That Way,” and “Any Way” … Then there is the road which
A CRIPPLING DISEASE
During the great Depression in the United States following the devastating 1929 Stock Market Crash, many persons gave personal testimony which said that they had not begun to discover what
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WHAT TO DO?
“How long will you love vain words and seek after lies?” the Old Testament Psalmist asked. Jesus prayed to the Father, “Consecrate them in the truth; Your word is truth.
IDENTIFY YOURSELF!
On a busy summer afternoon in New York City’s Times Square, two men, only a few feet apart carry two very different forms of identification cards. The first man proudly
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SEEING EYE-TO-EYE
The former pastor of the Riverside Church in New York City was fond of telling the story of an elderly woman parishioner who had acquired an immense dislike for him.
GOD LOVES AN ECCENTRIC
A teenage girl left for school wearing one yellow and one orange sock … Her mother, noticing this, headed her off at the front door. “Why are you wearing two
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WE’RE COMING NOW
The story is told of a pig and a chicken who are walking past a church one Sunday morning … Says the chicken to the pig, “You know, over the
DAY BY DAY
Grady Johnson, age four, asked Kerry, his mother, if he could help her with her nursing duties at the hospital … “Do you think you could give aspirin to a
CALL TO ACTION!
The story is told of a rather tight-fisted elderly man who arrived at the Pearly Gates where he was greeted by an angel … “Before I can open up the
GIVE, GIVE, GIVE!
There are many areas in our lives where some of us have taken a wrong turn … We are living in a time of taller buildings but shorter tempers, Wider
GOD LOVES US ANYWAY
“Why do you keep talking about my past mistakes?” said the husband. “I thought you had forgiven and forgotten.” “I have, indeed, forgiven and forgotten,” said the wife. “But I
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THANK GOD!
A panel of fifth-graders participated in a roundtable radio discussion of what they had learned in a Course called “Inventors and Inventions” … To conclude the program, the children were
What’s New?
Once upon a time, two little sunflower seeds nestled snugly together in the soft earth … They talked of God, the Creator of all seeds. They wanted to find Him.
Don’t Keep It In The Kitchen!
A man whose wife was sick, decided to do the cooking … He did quite well at it until, one day, he became very ambitious. He thought he would bake
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We Can See
A woman hovers between life and death in a hospital Intensive Care Unit … From time-to-time she awakens to the “blips” and “beeps” of the monitoring machine, and the steady
He Was Against It
President Calvin Coolidge was noted for his brevity of speech. He never used three words when one or two would suffice. One Sunday morning, he went to Church without his
What’s On The Menu?
On a Sunday afternoon, a woman we shall call “Aunt Emma,” was commenting on the sermon she had heard preached earlier that day. She said … “The sermon lasted rather
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