Children’s Sunday Sermon August 4, 2019 Good morning girls and boys! In the New Testament, the number one topic that Jesus teaches about is God’s Kingdom of Love. You probably […]
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A college newspaper once offered a prize to the person who submitted the best answer to life’s big question: “Why? … What’s life all about?” The entries came pouring in
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Several years ago, a Gallup Poll reported that Americans are about equally divided on whether Jesus was fun-loving or somber. I wasn’t among those polled, but if anyone were to
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In an old comedy routine, a famous film actor receives a telephone call from an advertising agency executive who says, “We want you to pose for a Gilby’s Gin billboard.”
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Often, in our culture, being “somebody,” means being rich and famous. Or, at the very least, being very athletic, entertaining or talented. By those standards, I suppose most of us
How can we learn how to pray? In today’s technological age, if you grow up in a world where every form of communication takes place on a screen – computer
“Surviving the Ages” is a first-person story of a desert experience told by a rich jewelry merchant … “One day I was overtaken by a great storm. It buffeted me
Thornton Wilder’s play, “Our Town,” was extremely popular when first presented years ago and is often performed to this day in regional theatres, colleges, and high schools. As the third
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A pastor and popular author wrote about a certain mistake that he says many preachers are guilty of. He says, “My mistake, one of many, is that I tell people
Children’s Sunday Sermon June 2, 2019 Good morning girls and boys. Have you ever looked closely at a spider web — I mean really closely? You can think of spiders
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A story has come down through the years about a king who visited the monasteries of a great Zen leader named Lin Chi. (Zen is a Japanese Buddhist sect that
In one of Rembrandt’s etchings, there is no halo around the Lord’s head, but there is one around His hand. Over the years, critics have debated Rembrandt’s reason for doing
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There once was a tribal elder in a remote corner of the earth who was sitting on a rock by a stream, eating an artichoke. Suddenly, as if a flash
In one of his novels, E.M. Forster gives us an emotional interpretation of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. He describes, in rather frightening terms, how the music gives one the eerie feeling
In the much-beloved film the “Wizard of Oz,” a great cyclone strikes in the state of Kansas, transporting young Dorothy to a strange land called Oz. She meets three very
Some years ago, the pollster George Gallup was asked to comment on what his polls were saying about “the correct state of religion in America.” What he said, in part,
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In a novel called, “Caught in That Music,” a woman named Debbie is going to marry a man named Norman. Debbie’s brother Jonas doesn’t like Norman. He thinks Norman is
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One day a man was driving down a country road when he noticed a chicken running ahead of him. He glanced at his speedometer and couldn’t believe his eyes: he
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When asked to explain the differences between herding cattle and tending sheep, a Texas rancher explained: You’ve got to herd Cows. We know they act in predictable ways, shying away
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An eighty-year-old father went to his daughter’s home for Sunday dinner. When the meal was over, he announced that he was going to take a walk through the neighborhood. “I’ll
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