Sowing the Seeds of Love
Seeds of Love According to an old legend, a woman whose son just died went to a mountaintop seeking counsel from a wise man. The grieving mother told him of …
Seeds
He Was Against It
President Calvin Coolidge was noted for his brevity of speech. He never used three words when one or two would suffice. One Sunday morning, he went to Church without his …
On This Day
A pastor was standing at the Church doorway, shaking hands with the parishioners as they filed out. The pastor spotted a man who, prior to that Sunday morning, hadn’t seen …
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 …
Who Are The Citizens?
A model morning prayer appeared in the Parish Bulletin of a Church in Missouri: Dear God: So far today I’ve done all right. I haven’t gossiped. I haven’t lost my …
When We Care Enough
Jesus spoke the “Parable of the Mustard Seed” from a boat anchored off the shore of the Sea of Galilee. In that area, the mustard plant grows eight to ten …
The Best Possible Glimpse
I paid a dime for a package of seeds. The clerk tossed them down with a flip. “We have them assorted to every man’s needs,” he said, with a smile …
How Happy You Will Be!
In today’s Gospel Lesson, Jesus tells us that the necessary precondition for our wholeness of life — genuine happiness — is to trust everything to God, that is, our very …
A Family Affair
One Sunday afternoon, a Washington, D.C. pastor received a telephone call from a woman parishioner. “I heard you preach this morning and I thought the sermon was fine,” she said, …