Time To Grow Up!
A young mother was pushing a super-market grocery cart toward the check-out counter. The cart was filled to overflowing and, sitting behind the pile in the upper-basket, was her three-year-old […]
Hope
Tribute To Death
The doctor who attended King Louis XIV of France was obsessed with hygiene, as well as various theories of longevity, which he applied to himself. For example, when he asked
Zing Go The Strings!
In a nineteenth century painting entitled “Hope,”1 the artist portrays a woman with bandaged eyes. She is unable to see ahead of herself. In her hands is a harp with
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Our Greatest Treasure
According to one popular author, “People who are resting on their laurels are wearing them on the wrong end.” This same author tells the story of man a named Jack
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What The World Needs Now
You can tell with certainty that men, not women, wrote most of the early mythology concerning the creation of the world and the beginning of mankind. You can tell it
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Thank God
There is a scene in Lloyd Douglas’ book, “The Robe,” in which Justus (a disciple of Christ) and Marcellus (the Centurion who had been in charge of the Crucifixion) are
Christmas Is Coming
In keeping with the Advent theme of high hope and great expectation, the Prophet Isaiah joyfully announces: “The Lord has sent me to bring glad tidings to the lowly, to
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Before The Bell Rings
A close friend of Leopold Stokowski, the famous orchestra conductor, has written that Stokowski often said to him, “Don’t ask me about what was, but what is to come!” This
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Here Is Your Family
Members of a Church youth club decided to raise money by having an outdoor car wash. Unfortunately, when the day of the event arrived, disaster struck: it was pouring rain.
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The Last Time Around The Sun
The late Muriel Lester was an amazing woman. As a teen-ager she quit the busy round of social life in London and rented a humble room because she wanted to
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What Is Truth?
Two men were walking through the woods when they encountered a huge grizzly bear. Immediately, they ran for cover in different directions. One climbed up a big tree. The other
A Fleeting Whisp Of Glory
Four hundred years before the birth, the life, the death, the Resurrection of Jesus, a man named Euripides wrote a play about Medea. Medea was a proud woman, a loving
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Rule For Happiness
In a letter to a friend, Marx Twain once wrote: “I have been reading the morning paper — well knowing that I shall find in it the usual depravities and
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A Field Of Buttercups
On August 5, 1942, an orphanage (called “Our Home”) in the Warsaw ghetto was emptied of its 200 Jewish children. They were to be marched to the little village of
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Footprints
Many years ago, on the busiest block of the main street in a small, midwestern town, a smooth cement sidewalk was laid to replace the old, worn and rough brick
Servant Problems
To be alive is to face risk. To be alive is to risk death, injury, sickness, disease, anxiety, embarrassment, shame, rejection, loneliness, betrayal. And because these are risks we must
The Saving Hand
Today’s Gospel Lesson comes to us in the story of Jesus walking on water. Jesus has just performed the miracle of feeding thousands of people with five loaves of bread
Put It To Music
In the city that was once Constantinople, a visitor to the Mosque of Saint Sophia stands quietly for a time marveling at the breathtaking architecture. The mosque was once a
Any Questions?
The famous poet and playwright, Archibald MacLeish, once was invited to participate in a special worship service at Harvard University’s Memorial Church. He was to lead the students in “Morning
When Disaster Strikes
An elementary school teacher was telling her class about statistics which indicate that more twins are being born these days than in the past. “Why?” asked a little boy. “Because,”
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