Do The Right Thing
In one of the Peanuts comic strips, Lucy is positioned behind her now famous “Psychiatric Help, Five cents” stand. Charlie Brown arrives for some advice. Charlie says, “My trouble is […]
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In one of the Peanuts comic strips, Lucy is positioned behind her now famous “Psychiatric Help, Five cents” stand. Charlie Brown arrives for some advice. Charlie says, “My trouble is […]
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In a “Peanuts” comic strip, Lucy and Charlie Brown are engaged in earnest conversation about the meaning of life. Lucy feels that it’s a matter of one’s perspective. She says,
Once upon a time there was a king who had everything the world had to offer — all that money could buy, plus absolute power over his people. But despite
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A young boy was looking dreamily out the classroom window. The teacher asked … “And what do you see out there?” “I see the horizon.” “And have you ever walked
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Science tells us that a dense fog, one hundred feet deep and covering seven city blocks, is composed of less than one eight-ounce glass of water. Unbelievable though it seems,
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As you read the Gospels and try to understand what they are saying to your life, certain ironies are bound to enter your thoughts. For example, a surface reading of
Old Cyrus Barker was the richest man in town. When he became terminally ill there was much speculation among the villagers concerning the extent of his wealth. And when Cyrus
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According to an old rabbinical story… In a small East European country there lived a pious Jewish lad who wanted to become a Rabbi. He walked several miles each day,
A “first grade” teacher noticed that one of her students was growing increasingly withdrawn. Clearly, the little girl was extremely worried about something. “What are you worried about?” the teacher
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If you belong to Jesus Christ in any way at all, you become His minister. It is not a matter of clergy and laity. It is a matter of all
An elderly man confided to a friend that he was planning to live to be one hundred. The friend replied, “I too would like to be one hundred. But how
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Three persons were standing at the gates of heaven seeking admission: two men and one woman. “I would like to come in,” one of the men said to St. Peter.
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There is an episode in Luke’s Gospel in which someone asks Jesus, “Lord, will those who are saved be few?” (Lk. 13:23). Judging by our own experience, we can almost
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That great philosopher, Charlie Brown of the “Peanuts” cartoons, once made a profound observation that touches on the way we feel about this thing we call “salvation.” Charlie is leaning
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In the remote deserts of Southwestern United States, temperatures soar above 120 degrees every summer. The earth cakes and cracks. To lift one’s face to the early afternoon sun is
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During the mid-1800s, Alexis DeTocqueville, the famous French Historian, endeavored to capture and record some of the spirit of the American Dream. He traveled extensively in the United States and
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Over a doorway in an old Dutch banking house is the following inscription: The Golden Age is the Age in which money does not rule! A man went to a
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If you would heed the advice of a famous German poet, everyday you would “at least hear one song, read one good poem, contemplate one good painting, and, if it
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Through encounter group sessions, people try to experience something that happened long before the coming of modern psychology and group dynamics. In our Gospel Lesson, a group of fishermen on
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A fire-and brimstone preacher was delivering his usual doomsday sermon about the end of the world. “Reform!” he boomed. “Reform your lives because sooner or later the signs of the