A little boy went to the corner grocery store and asked for a box of detergent. The clerk said, "Son, what do you need the detergent for?" "I want to wash my dog!" the boy…
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During the Great Depression there was a man who lost his job, a fortune, his wife and home, but tenaciously held on to his faith - the only thing he had left. One day, he…
"Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you." (Jn. 6:53). As we move deeper into the Advent Season,…
". . . wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, 'Where is the Child who has been born King of the Jews? For we observed His star rising and have come to pay…
"What good is it, my brothers and sisters if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you?" (James 2:14). Many of you remember the lines from "My Fair Lady"…
Henry Thoreau once wrote that the "greatest of all arts is the 'art of living.'" He said that the people who practice this highest of arts are not artists in the usual sense of painters,…
A man was feeling empty inside. He wanted more out of life. So he decided to seek help from a pious old monk. "What is the secret of successful living?" the troubled man asked. "Each…
Try to imagine for a moment this disturbing account depicted in a photo-essay that appeared in a national magazine: The story begins with a photograph of a man lying prostrate on subway stairs. This was…
In the New York Times best seller based on the author's convocation address at Syracuse University, George Saunders writes, "here's something I know to be true: What I regret most in my life are failures…
With the exception of a few immediate family members -- there was a certain man who never attended the funeral of any of his close friends or acquaintances. When asked why this was so, he…
In his own inimitable style, baseball's Yogi Berra once said, "You should always go to other people's funerals, because if you don't, they might not go to yours."
There is a "Peanuts" cartoon strip in which Lucy and Linus are staring out the window at a tremendous rainfall. Lucy says, "Boy, look at that rain! What if it floods the whole world?" Linus…
There is a parable about a man who was riding on a train but didn't know where he was going. There was good companionship among the passengers: they talked and laughed and made plans together…
Rembrandt did a painting which portrays the Biblical story of the storm on the Sea of Galilee. Perhaps some of you have seen it. The little ship occupied by Jesus and the Apostles is being…
Most of you have probably had this feeling at one time or another: You've planned for months or even years the trip of a lifetime. Maybe it's the ultimate vacation to celebrate your graduation or…
Trust Him when dark doubts assail you, Trust Him when your faith is small, Trust Him when simply to trust Him Is the hardest thing of all.
"Why did God choose to make such a world as this?" someone complained to a friend. "I could make a better world than this myself." The friend replied, "that is the very reason God put…
There was a young man named Bud who spent two years working in the oil fields of New Mexico in order to earn enough money for college. One winter day, when he was ninety-feet up…
In a beautifully-written reflection on the familiar story of the conversation at Jacob's Well between Jesus and a Samaritan woman, a popular author has written: I'd give a thousand sunsets to see the expression on…
There once was a very learned philosophy professor who had earned not one, not two, but three post-graduate degrees. And his head was crammed full of just about everything philosophers of every Age had to…
