What Is The Cost?
It was the last day before the football team of a large University was to play it’s biggest game of the season … Unfortunately, the head football coach had just […]
New Life
Wait Three Days!
In a cartoon called “The Family Circus,” two children have discovered their Easter baskets and are busily enjoying the contents. One of the children asks, “Who colored the eggs?” The
I Shall Rise Again
The husband had a worried look on his face when he sat down to have a heart-to-heart talk with his wife. After a few false starts, he said to her
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Are We On Our Way?
It’s so easy sometimes to find ways of avoiding responsibility. But, clever as we may be at covering up and rationalizing our misdeeds, the consequences are merely postponed — never
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You Really Matter!
The New Testament writers tell us, over-and-over again, that God’s Grace will overtake us whenever we journey through the dark tunnel of meaninglessness. Sometimes, at that moment of total despair,
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The Ultimate Paradox
The Lord Jesus, the Apostles, the New Testament writers and the Early Christians all made use of jolting paradoxes in their teaching… In the Kingdom of God, the last are
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Repent!
In the Gospels, we find over-and-over again the Good News of the kind of full life God wants to give us. Because He loves us so much, He has come
A Child Again
Actress Arlene Francis was strolling in the park one day when she saw a very beautiful little girl at play-so beautiful, in fact, that Ms. Francis could not resist congratulating
Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas, the Welsh poet, had great love and respect for his father. When his father died, Thomas expressed his deep grief in one of the best-known poems in the
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God’s Key
There is a short story in which a self-centered old man dreams that he died and went to hell. In the midst of his anguish, he looks heavenward and cries
Death Is Death
A father, whose only daughter was seventeen, was going through a kind of dying. The daughter was preparing to go away to college. Father and daughter had been very close,
Stuck In The Mud?
A seminary student rose to preach his first sermon. He began, saying, “The title of my sermon is, ‘Man, God, The Universe and Related Subjects.’” Given time and additional life
I Cover For You
There is a Gospel Story in which Nicodemus, one of the leading citizens of his community, wanted to talk to Jesus. He came to Him by night because he was
Let Go
A mother whose only son was preparing for college, wrote the following letter to the college president: Dear Sir: My son has been accepted for admission to your college and
And We Wait
An ancient oriental story tells of a little fish swimming along the edge of the river. Nearby on the river bank a science teacher has assembled his class for an
Clearing The Debris
The disciples simply would not allow Jesus to prepare them for His death. They would not accept it. They would not believe that He, whom they had experienced as Lord
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You Know Best, Amen
We can learn from the past, but we cannot live in the past. God’s creation is in the process of development. The movement is continuous. The change is constant. Inevitably,
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We Need Recycling
Lord, today I feel like … a used firecracker, a balloon with a hole in it, a dried-up pen, an empty soda-pop can, a worn-out shoe, a discarded blob of
From Mere Existence To New Life
Each New Year’s Day, it is the custom at an east coast University to hang the official senior class picture in the student union building. Underneath the photograph there is
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Need Mending
In the Gospel of John, we find over and over again the Good News of the kind of full life that God wants to give us because He loves us
