God’s Hospitality
If your life seems to be in a rut, if everything seems to get you down, if you don’t seem to be growing spiritually, if the development of your personhood […]
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Creatures Of Habit
Students in a “Creative Writing” class were accustomed to receiving writing assignments which involved various aspects of their everyday living. Consequently, as the course drew to a close, their final
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He’s Hollow!
A larger than average man stepped on a scale not knowing it was out of order. The indicator stopped at 75 pounds. A little boy, standing nearby with his mother,
Does Jesus Have It All Wrong?
Little Johnny was very upset with his brother, Willy. Before he said his night prayers, Johnny’s mother said to him, “Now I want you to forgive your brother.” But Johnny
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No ‘half-and-half’ God
“Those whose allegiance is divided are odious,” the Psalmist wrote (Ps. 119:113). Or, as another translation puts it, “I Hate those ‘half-and-half’ people.” These words reflect the fervent anger of
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Spectator Or Participant?
The religions of today differ in many ways. However, they seem to have at least one thing in common; they envision the religious life as a quest … a journey
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Skirting Around The Edges?
When a young woman attempted to take her own life, she left a short note explaining why she was doing it. She gave several reasons, but one sentence stands out.
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Come On Home!
To conclude a long sermon on repentance, a fire-and-brimstone preacher said forcefully, “I want everyone in this congregation to know that there is one among us who especially needs to
We Need Recycling
Lord, today I feel like … a used firecracker, a balloon with a hole in it, a dried-up pen, an empty soda-pop can, a worn-out shoe, a discarded blob of
He Loves Me!
he father of three children was doing his best trying to mediate the usual family quibbling around the dinner table. Fast losing patience, he banged his fist on the table
Are You There?
There is the story of a woman who died and went to Heaven. She was greeted at the Pearly Gates by St. Peter, who said, “Before you enter, I must
Calling You By Name
There’s something about Easter Sunday — something exuberant, something triumphant, something inexpressibly happy. But the first Easter began on a very different note. When Mary Magdalene got up before dawn,
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Heart-to-heart
The story of Helen Keller is a familiar one. At age nineteen months she lost her sight and hearing. Denied all the resources of language, she seemed, in her early
Just Passing Through
The Holy men and women of the Far East have always made wisdom the supreme human virtue. The custom of disciplined solitude in the pursuit of wisdom profoundly affected Oriental
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Time To Let Our Hair Down
After serving on a jury in a case involving fraud, one of the jurors wrote down an account of the trial as he saw it. It read, in part, The
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Destined For Sainthood?
If Jesus had been born in the twentieth century, His choice of the “shepherd and flock” imagery to describe His relationship with us might seem misplaced. Modern sheep herding methods
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What Is A Frog?
It is said that our present Age — our modern secular Age, so called — lacks a proper sense of reverence for the awesome mystery of life. Modern man, it
I Want To Hold Your Hand
How does the Holy Spirit help us in times of need? The Advocate works like this … A young Armenian girl named Elizabeth Caraman saw Turkish troops arrest her father
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Permission To Cross The Street
Over the arches of the triple doorway of the Cathedral of Milan there are three inscriptions. One is a beautifully carved wreath of roses, and beneath it the words, “All
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Resurrection Presence, Resurrection Presents
Early in his career, Mark Twain took a job as a newspaper reporter. He was instructed by his editor never to state anything as a fact that he could not
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