There Is No Death?
I’m going to tell you a “fish story.” It seems that some scientists decided to develop a fish that could live outside of water. They selected several healthy red herring […]
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Miracles
With All Your Weight!
Many years ago, a missionary named John Paton began to translate the New Testament into the language of the natives he was trying to bring to Christ. During the course
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It Makes Complete Sense!
In the first panel of a particularly insightful “Peanuts” cartoon, Little Lucy, her fist clenched, is running after Charlie Brown. “I’ll get you Charlie Brown! I’ll get you!” she says.
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We Need Each Other!
A Sunday School teacher was lecturing her third-grade class on the subject of miracles. For her text she had chosen a passage from the sixth chapter of John’s Gospel: ”
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Awesome!
A certain sales manager was complaining to a colleague about one of his salesmen. “George is so forgetful that it’s a wonder he can sell anything. I asked him to
Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory
The earliest account of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is found in the fifteenth chapter of Paul’s first Letter to the Corinthians. As we read those early verses, we find
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Say Yes!
The editors of a big city newspaper decided to do a series of articles on “The Typical Small Town In America.” The reporters and photographers descended upon the subject town
The Man Of Compassion
A woman and man who had been married for twenty-five years were looking through the family photo album. As the pictures took them back through the years, the wife began
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An Everyday Miracle
A worried woman took her anxieties to a palm-reading fortune teller. “Everything is going wrong,” she complained. “My husband is being unfaithful to me. My daughter ran away with a
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The Big Broadcast
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see. In today’s Gospel reading,
Nobody Is ‘nobody’
A woman rode down a hotel elevator on a day when the Press crowded the lobby, waiting for Elizabeth Taylor to come out of her suite. The elevator stopped, the
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What Does It Mean To Be Good?
A certain bachelor told his mother that he finally had met the girl of his dreams. He desperately wanted to impress her, so he asked his mother for advice on
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Precious Lord
“Precious Lord,” perhaps the world’s most popular Gospel song, established its composer, Tom Dorsey, as the architect of Gospel Music. “Precious Lord’s” appeal crosses denominational lines and has been translated
Miracle Of Love
Miracles? Miracles? Let’s not pretend, They can all be explained From beginning to end. So say the cynics of our time, but what about you? Do you believe in miracles?
Fly-specks Or Miracles
An American travelling in the Middle East decided to visit the Sea of Galilee where, the Bible tells us, Jesus walked on water. He approached a boatman and asked if
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Christ, Our Bread
The Gospel story you have just heard must have been very important in the life of the early Christians. It is interesting to note that except for the crucifixion of
Isn’t It Amazing!
Today’s Gospel lesson describes a brief episode in which Jesus was asked to lay His hands on “a deaf man who had a speech impediment.” Jesus put his fingers in
Have A Nice Life!
One Sunday morning, Helena, a member of the Providence, Rhode Island Women’s Club, sat in Church and listened intently to a reading of the episode in today’s Gospel Lesson: A
And Now What Happens?
Francine M. O’Connor has written a little meditation in which she wonders whether or not we everyday Christians take the miracles of Jesus for granted. She says … As adults,
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You Can Perform Miracles
A science professor was delivering a slide lecture. A forest scene flashed onto the screen. In the center of the picture stood an oddly-shaped tree. “I want you to look
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