“My time is not yet here, but your time is always opportune” (John 7:6). There is a wonderful story about a tiger. The mother and father tiger had been killed and the baby was brought…
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“…so behave like free men and never use your freedom as an excuse for wickedness” (I Peter 2:16). C.S. Lewis has pictured Satan presiding over a meeting of all of Hell’s lesser-devils in order to…
“You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Mark 12:31). With more than a little imagination, someone has written a little scenario about what took place when Jesus said to His disciples: “I give you a…
“If I have all the eloquence of men or of angels, but speak without love, I am simply a gong booming or a cymbal clanging” (I Corinthians 13:1). A veteran of forty years as a…
“Marriage is to be honored by all” (Hebrews 13:4). The following questions about love, courtship and marriage were posed to kids ages five to ten. Their answers below are enlightening: WHAT DO MOST PEOPLE DO…
“Such as My love has been for you, so must your love be for each other” (John 13:34). It happened at a fast-food restaurant: A small boy hopped down from where he sat with his…
“…insofar as you did this to one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did it to Me” (Matthew 25:40). Do you remember the Parable of the Last Judgment in which Jesus clearly…
“Happy are your eyes because they see, your ears because they hear” (Mt. 13:16). There is a fascinating book called “Lost In The Cosmos,”1 in which the author wonders about us moderns, “who spend millions…
“We love because He first loved us.” (I John 4:19). Erich Fromm, in “The Art of Loving,” simply states that without loving relationships there can be no love. In our everyday lives we all too…
“He who does not love abides in death” (I John 3:14). Sister Ann was a medical missionary from St. Louis. She was a physician and a poet and a woman of extraordinary grace. When only…
“Think of the love the Father has lavished on us” (I John 3:1). A decade or so ago, the rock singer, Peter Frampton, recorded a song called “Wind of Change” in which he sings these…
“I have loved you, that you also love one another” (John 14:34). Just before Leonard Bernstein’s birthday, the late, great composer, conductor and musician was asked by the New York Times to write an article.…
“...the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasures hidden in a field which someone has found” (Matthew 13:44). In the lore of a tribe in West Africa, there is a story called “The Legend of the…
“There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1). When we are anxious, when we grieve, time seems to drag cruelly. When we are joyful,…
Moms and Dads, if you want your children to grow up to love God and trust in God; if you want your children to love you and believe in you; if you want your children…
“...there are three things that last: faith, hope and love; and the greatest of these is love” (I Corinthians 13:13). In the late sixties, James Baldwin wrote a play about a hand-clapping, Gospel-singing storefront Church…
“In short, there are three things that last: faith, hope and love; and the greatest of these is love” (I Corinthians 13:13). God has shown His love-in-action in Christ. We must continue the pattern as…
Heart Song: Once upon a time a woman and a man who yearned to be on the side of truth became husband and wife. With their love, they brought into the world a delightful little…
“Now you together are Christ’s Body; but each of you is a different part of it” (I Corinthians 12:27). Peter A. Fraille, a Jesuit priest and founder of the “Divine and Human Institute,” tells of…
“. . . if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us.” (I John 4:12). In one of his “best-seller” books, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer has written a…
