Unfinished Business
A poster was once widely circulated in which the following acronym appeared: P-B-P G-I-N-T-W-M-Y The letters stand for … Please be patient. God is not through with me yet. How […]
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Children’s Sunday Sermons
April 6, 2008 Good morning girls and boys. Can anyone tell me what a brownout is? Well a brownout is when a city doesnít have enough electricity to power all
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Power and Authority
A government surveyor brought his equipment to a farm, called on the farmer, and asked permission to take readings for use in constructing a proposed highway that would run through
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Arenít We all?
Many years ago, someone wrote a song entitled ìIím A Dreamer, Arenít We All?î Sure we are! Weíre all walking down ìThe Street of Dreamsî (another song title). And, sooner
Citizenship
He slept beneath the moon, he basked beneath the sun he lived the life of ìgoing to doî and died with nothing done. In a very real sense, we gather
Preaching All The Way
The Gospel writers tell us that Jesus was criticized by the haughty Pharisees for many things. In todayís Gospel Episode they rail against Him for associating with sinners. In New
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Sealed Into Place
In an old ìPeanutsî comic strip, Charlie Brown is pictured on the beach building a beautiful sand castle … When the castle is completed a very self-satisfied Charlie stands back
Give Me Tomorrow
In todayís Gospel Reading, Almighty God is inviting us to partake in more than a mere luncheon. He is asking us to come to a Heavenly Banquet — a love
Filled With Wonder
It was a day when the threat of rain was in the air … A young woman drove up to a drive-through fast-food window. She was waited on by a
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Men and Women of God
A ìCharlie Brownî comic strip once appeared in which Charlie asks little Linus what he wants to be when he grows up? Linus replies, ìOutrageously happy!î We can understand where
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Any Questions?
A five-year-old child was taken to church for the first time by her grandmother … From the altar came the words, ìLet us pray,î and the little girl saw everyone
Into The Sunshine
A newspaper reporter was walking past the large street level window of a branch of the New York City Public Library … He noticed that a man on the other
Angel of Love
We spend a goodly portion of our lives struggling against ordinary and extraordinary risks. We do everything possible to save our life in this sense … We build nest-eggs to
With Burning Hearts
Early one morning a cruise ship was making its way into port … A storm was rising and, because of the heavy seas, the regular gangway could not be used
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Children’s Sunday Sermons January-March 2008
January 1, 2008 Good morning girls and boys. I want to wish each one of you a very Happy New Year! Of course, today is New Yearís Day — the
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Shalom!
Not even the Risen Christ can get through to us if we refuse to acknowledge even the possibility that we do not ìknow it all.î All of life is a
Awake One And All!
Once there was a parish in which a special committee was appointed to carry out a single duty … It was the committee membersí responsibility to patrol the church every
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Look Up!
A famous singer, after a severe bereavement, went to India in search of peace. There she visited the famous Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore, whose works had been a source of
That Proves It!
A University Professor greeted his new first-year students of comparative religions with the following assignment: ìStudy the various schools of thought down through the Ages on whether or not it
