Business As Usual
There is an ancient tale in which a king’s four sons are asked what careers they intend to follow. They said to one another: “Let us go out into the […]
Freedom
The Real Power Of A Nation
The Good News of the Gospel is, primarily, the Good News about Almighty God: a God of power, a God of justice, a God of Grace, a God of Love.
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He’s Already There
Several years ago, the newspapers ran a story about a desperate prisoner in Australia who successfully carried out his plan to escape from the county jail. He managed to do
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If Not You, Then Who?
Professor Abraham Maslow, one of the most widely-read social scientists of our time, often challenged his students with questions like … Which of you is going to be a great
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Let Freedom Ring
The students in a fifth-grade class in American History were given an examination. Among the questions to be answered was the following: The Declaration of Independence was written chiefly by_______(fill
Hang Loose!
Fashions in language come and go. But it’s likely that one lasting contribution from the fashions of recent years will turn out to be the expression “uptight.” Uptight people are
Let Freedom Ring
If ever a person had reason to be bitter and unforgiving, it was Jesus during the last week of His life. Clearly, His intense agony in the Garden of Gethsemene
In God’s Hands
In his letter to the Ephesians, the Apostle Paul describes himself as “a prisoner for the Lord.” Yet, he also wrote to the Christians of his day, “For freedom Christ
Nothing To Fear
A class of first year theology students had been studying the various philosophical schools of thought on whether or not, through human reasoning, it is possible to prove the existence
Follow Me
At this point in Luke’s Gospel, Jesus has traveled the length and breadth of the Roman Province of Judea preaching a new style of life. He has told the common
Family Values
Whether you’re at teen-age, middle-age, or retirement age, how foolish for you to imagine, even for a single day, that you know everything! How foolish you are to imagine that
Stop Trying So Hard!
What’s past is over and done with. We can’t recover our lost youth or our lost opportunities or our lost loves. But with each new day we can enhance and
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Playing It Safe
A motorist driving along an almost deserted backwoods road, noticed that his car was overheating. He spotted a man sitting on the steps of a broken-down old farmhouse. He pulled
Bright And Breezy
According to a syndicated newspaper columnist, “Freedom of choice has become exhausting.” He says that he has come to see that an abundance of options is not necessarily a godsend
Called To Be Saints?
In a book called, “If I Were in Charge of the World and Other Worries,” the reader is invited to see the world through the eyes of a five-or six-year-old
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Has It Gone Through You?
According to one of author Ernest Hemingway’s biographers, on the first day of each new year Hemingway gave away some of his most treasured possessions. And when people asked him
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