Holiest Of The Holy
In an ancient story called “The Holy Man,” a group of pilgrims are travelling across a vast desert to visit the holy shrines and temples of antiquity. After several days’ […]
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Obedience Now!
A businessman’s wife and their three-year-old daughter were seeing him off at the airport. Waiting at the departure gate, they were informed over the public address system that the flight
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
The Struggle To Forgive
Surely, one of the most beautiful pictures in all of literature is the one in which the father of the prodigal son is looking down the road, hoping his boy
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There Is Only Love
In today’s Lesson from Luke’s Gospel, Jesus is praying and one of the disciples says to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray” (Lk. 11:1). Jesus answers, “When you pray say,
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Easy Street Is A Dead-end
There is a tendency throughout life to search for the easy way of doing things. We all search for that elusive “Easy Street.” In fact, in Honolulu, Hawaii, if you
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To Be Full Of Love
Toward the middle of his Letter to the Ephesians, a supremely confident St. Paul says, “When you read what I have said, you will realize that I know what I
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Listen To Love
Those of us who have identified with Jesus the Christ, have been taught a very special kind of love, which among other things, is a listening love. It’s not the
Everyone’s Out To Lunch
What is this “faith” that can uproot sycamores and transplant them into the sea? What is this “faith” that can move mountains?” There is a very moving story about a
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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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The Pieces Don’t Fit
In one of his plays, Tennessee Williams tells about a mentally ill woman who is sitting at a card table set up in her garden, working a jig-saw puzzle. She
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A Strawberry For You
One Sunday morning, a preacher went into the pulpit and began to read an Old Testament passage from an Old Bible that had been falling apart and was recently repaired.
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The Good Sweet Taste
The “Star Kist” tuna fish company has been running a TV commercial for eighteen years featuring “Charlie,” the deep-sea tuna. Charlie is a delightful, neurotic tuna. He is very unsure
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Only One Way
Just south of Lake Erie there is a wonder of nature called the “Blue Hole.” The Blue Hole is a circular opening in the earth, about one hundred feet in
Our Model And Our Savior
“Follow Me!” the Risen Christ says to Peter in today’s Gospel Lesson. In themselves, good resolutions and intentions in the area of faith will not do us much good. If
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The Divine Influences
One of the most wondrous things about God is that you never know when He is going to break through all your defenses and call you into a deeper relationship
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The Power Of Love
It has been said that there are three levels of life, each with its own predictable results. On the lowest level you repay good with evil. This is the demonic
Bread Of Life
The staff of life it’s often said Is nothing more or less than bread. Some of you may remember singing that little jingle from your childhood days. Children used to
Lost Again?
A seventy-five-year old man went to the doctor’s office for his annual physical checkup. The doctor was greatly impressed with the man’s superb condition. He said, “You have the body
They Didn’t Understand
In today’s Gospel Lesson, Jesus dispatches seventy-two of the disciples to precede Him into the villages He planned to visit, and to prepare the people for His coming. Their mission
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