His Name is Love
As the story goes, a rich widow who lived in Washington, D.C. died. In her Last Will and Testament, she left all of her estate to God. Her strange bequest […]
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A Patch of Light and a Rusty Nail
When Leonardo DaVinci was working on his painting of “The Last Supper,” he would spend hours, even days, looking at his canvas. Then he would take his brush in hand
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Our Crazy, Mixed Up Family
If you ever want to calculate how many ancestors you’ve had, say, in the past five hundred years, start off with your two parents. Each of them had two parents,
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Garlic And Onions
One day, he met a traveler who told him about a faraway land where onions were unknown. “No onions?” said The Dreamer, “I’ll go there and introduce the people to
A Foolproof Cure
You probably know that the Old Testament word for “peace” is the beautiful Hebrew word, “shalom.” In the Bible, the word means so much in terms of human fulfillment that
Expect The Unexpected
In the day’s of the Roman persecution, one of the worst things that could happen to a Christian was to be sent to the mines of New Midea in Africa.
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Raise Your Banners!
There is an amusing little story about a man who bought a used jacket at a vintage clothing store. In one of the pockets, he found a fifteen-year-old ticket for
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Children’s Sunday Sermons March 2018
Children’s Sunday Sermon March 4, 2018 Good morning girls and boys. Right now I want each one of you to think about something that you have at home that is
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The Man Of Love
Years ago, an American film called “The World In Darkness” told the story of an archaeologist who was excavating in Jerusalem, near the Mount Calvary area. One day he announced
Service Is The Only Thing
A little boy attended a school where the students were permitted absolute free expression: they could do whatever they wanted to do. One day the boy complained to his teacher,
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Hey Google!
How would you like to get real-time answers to things you want to know from a voice-activated, computerized personal assistant? Sounds fantastic, doesn’t it? Well, according to the advertising, that’s
Let The Light Shine Through
During the mid-1960s, a new translation of the Bible was issued. It was called “The Jerusalem Bible.” In truth, every Bible is The Jerusalem Bible, for Jerusalem is what the
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Make The Extraordinary Ordinary
Someone has said that a saint does extraordinary things in ordinary ways. There is one such group of ordinary people doing extraordinary work in midtown Manhattan called the “Friends of
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The Push Of A Button
Our English word, “miracle,” comes from the Latin word “miani,” meaning “to wonder,” and the word “minus,” meaning “wonderful.” Other words in common use come from the same roots, including
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We Can Do Better!
Driving home from a party late one night, a married couple gets into a heated argument about the husband’s, boorish behavior. As the rhetoric grows in intensity, so does the
Reach Out And Touch Someone
As a perfect fit for today’s Lesson, a popular magazine once published a little poem on the healing power of touch. It goes something like this . . . In
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A Real Blockhead!
Recently, a man looking for attention on Youtube received a bit more of it than he bargained for. In fact, he made headlines across the globe. I’m sure you’re all
A Glorious Ending
Think about it . . . If it takes a three-hundred-thousand dollar-per-year executive to guide a client, lead an advertising campaign, develop a computer program or help put a corporation
Here-sick or Homesick?
In a book called “Peace of Mind,” a famous psychiatrist -1 says that “The supreme foe of inner-victory, is rigid pride.” The Bible often calls it being “stiff-necked.” In Biblical
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Take Off Your Shoes!
Picture if you will, an elderly woman seated on a slow moving train, quietly looking out the window, noticing everything that passes by: the lines of houses, the wire-connected poles,
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