A Matter Of Choice
A few years ago, the City of Newark, New Jersey began selling water from its reservoir to neighboring Jersey City. Jersey City then sold the water to its residents for […]
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Something To Say ‘yes!’ To
A fable has been written about a city mouse that moved to the countryside and took up residence inside the walls of an old farm house… From the start, that
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Pass It On
Two experienced fishermen went ice-fishing. They chopped holes in the ice, put worms on their hooks, dropped their lines into the water and, three hours later, they had caught nothing.
Keep Your Shirt On!
The Biblical writers had an experience of God that was so rich and full and overwhelming that no one word, no one image, no one idea could describe it. They
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Your Life In Context
A sexton was sweeping up a mess on the front steps of the Church. He looked at the flowers lying about in disorder. “What a waste!” he muttered. Those pretty
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Recognize Your Host!
A little boy wrote a letter to God. “Dear God,” he said… Are you in charge of babies? I have three sisters which is good. But I would like to
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Good Christian Talk
In a book called, “We Really Do Need Each Other,” a Professor of Religion gives us a personalized little glimpse into what Jesus is telling us in today’s Gospel Lesson:
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God Loves A Good Story
It has been said, “There are not little things.” That is to say, things we regard as “little” often may be of greater value than things we regard as “big.”
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High Adventure
A management consultant in Los Angeles often begins his management-trainee seminars with the story of a tour guide in an Australian art museum… The guide is describing a beautiful work
The Deciding Vote
An American philanthropist went to Israel to inspect several Houses of Worship to which he had been sending contributions. In an obscure corner of Negev he met with the rabbi
Cat Food, Fuchsias And The Christian Message
A Sunday School teacher was telling her class of second-graders the story of the City of Sodom. She said, Most of the people in that city were being terribly disobedient
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Better Believe It!
Two men were jogging one morning on the beach. They stopped abruptly when they spotted an exotic, ancient lamp half-buried in the sand. One of the men picked up the
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Nibbling Ourselves Lost
One of the duties of a shepherd is to prevent wayward sheep from wandering away on their own. And Jesus often used the imagery of sheep-and-shepherd in His teachings. One
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Good Lord, That’s Me!
This is a true story: A Michigan woman and her family were vacationing in a small New England town — the same town that actor Paul Newman often vacationed in.
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Giving Up And Giving In
On a Sunday in March, a mother and her sixteen-year-old daughter were returning home from Church after listening to a sermon on Lent. “I still don’t understand what Lent is
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Life Without God?
At breakfast one morning, King Louis XV, savoring the aroma coming from the royal kitchen asked, “What is life without coffee?” Then, after a moment’s reflection, he asked, “What is
God Loves Even Us
Some time ago, the following item went out over the Associated Press wire: Keeping a sense of humor about one’s name can help — as in the case of a
What Am I ‘here after’?
An elderly man confided to a friend that he was planning to live to be one hundred. The friend replied, “I too would like to be one hundred. But how
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A Family Portrait
A little British girl once asked her mother, “Mummy, how did the princess know she was going to have a baby?” Before “Mummy” could reply, her younger daughter, aged five,
You Are Richer Today…
In the 1980’s, often referred as the decade of greed, a new word was coined to describe young, “upwardly mobile” people obsessed with the desire for quick financial success: “Yuppie.”
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