What God Expects You To Do
A Jewish family moved into a new neighborhood. The parents felt that their young son would benefit from some extra discipline. Consequently they went to enroll him in a nearby …
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The Greatest Of Teachers
There is a Peanuts cartoon in which Little Lucy asks, “You know what your trouble is Charlie Brown?” Then she answers her own question: “The whole trouble with you is …
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 …
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 …
School Is Never Out
A fourth-grader seemed perplexed as he lingered over his homework assignment. Finally, he called out, “Mom, I need your help. I have to write a paper about ‘The Person I …
Then You Can Keep Christmas
It has been said, and rightly so … If the Christ is born in Bethlehem a million times, and trudges the dusty roads of Palestine, preaching for a million years, …
Between Two Slices Of Bread
Thanks to medical science and other factors, people are living longer and longer. Regrettably, it is not always the case that enlarging the quantity of life results in enhancing the …